Trump wants to take control of the Ukrainian gas pipeline
American and Ukrainian officials on Friday They met to discuss the White House’s suggestions for minerals. Trump wants Kiev to hand over his natural resources as a « repayment » in exchange for weapons shipped by the previous Biden government. Discussions became more and more bitter – writes Reuters.
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The latest US draft is « more maximal » than the original February version, which suggested $ 500 billion in rare metals and oil and gas to Washington.
Referring to a source close to negotiations, the news agency states that the latest document states that the US government’s international development financing company takes over the management of the natural gas pipeline.
The pipeline runs from Ukraine, about 1200 kilometers from Sujja, Western Russia, on the border of the EU and Slovakia. Built in Soviet times, the pipeline is a key element of national infrastructure and an important energy path.
As is known, on January 1, Ukraine stopped the gas supplywhen Gazprom’s five -year contract with Russian state energy company expired. Earlier, both countries earned hundreds of millions of euros on transit fees, including during the first three years of the total war.
Ukraine’s division could be similar to Berlin
Meanwhile, the United States’ Ukrainian special commissioner Keith Kellogg said he had misunderstood his comments on Ukraine’s possible division. In an interview with the Times, Kellogg said that the country could be « almost divided as part of the Second World War as part of a peace treaty. »
In his article on X, Kellogg said that he referred to « a flexibility of elasticity after the ceasefire after the ceasefire after peace ». According to this plan, the Russian troops would remain in the area already occupied by Moscow, and the British and French forces would be stationed in Kiev and other parts of the country.
On Friday, Trump’s other special commissioner, Steve Witkoff, talked with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. According to Witkoff, the resolution of the conflict was for Russia to receive the four Ukrainian provinces it demanded – including areas that Ukraine controls and 1 million people live.
