The US and Ukraine are preparing to sign the Mineral Agreement within a few hours, according to Reuters

The US President's administration Donald Trump and Ukraine plan to sign a massive deal on the minerals after a catastrophic meeting in the Oval Cabinet on Friday, at which Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski was asked to leave the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress on Tuesday night (4pm Bulgarian time), three of the sources said, warning that the deal has not yet been signed and the situation can change.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for a comment. The Presidential Administration of Ukraine in Kiev and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.

Zelenski had traveled to Washington to sign the deal on Friday, but that did not happen after Trump and Vice President Jay Vance insulted Zelenski, telling him that he should thank the United States for the support instead of seeking additional help to the US media. « You play with the Third World War, » Trump said.

In recent days, US officials have been talking to officials in Kiev about the signing of the mineral deal, despite the explosive event on Friday and called on Zelenski advisers to persuade the Ukrainian president to apologize openly to Trump, according to one of the people familiar with the question.

On Tuesday, Zelenski published on X that Ukraine was ready to sign the deal and called the meeting in the oval office « worthy of regret ».

« Our meeting in Washington, in the White House on Friday, did not go the way I had to, » Zelenski said in his publication. « Ukraine is ready to sit on the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace.

It is unclear whether the text of the transaction has changed. The agreement, which was to be signed last week, does not include explicit security guarantees of Ukraine, but gives US access to revenue from Ukraine's natural resources. It also envisaged the Ukrainian government to pay 50% of future revenue from various state natural resources in the US and Ukraine Investment Fund for Recovery.

On Monday, Trump signaled that his administration remained open to signing the deal, telling reporters that Ukraine « should be more thankful ». « This country stayed with them all the time, » Trump said. « We gave them much more than Europe, and Europe had to give more than us. »