据一名乌克兰高级官员称，乌克兰和美国已就一项与关键矿产和其他资源相关的协议条款达成一致。
虽然乌克兰已经表示同意这笔交易，但唐纳德·特朗普总统没有证实美国已经同意，而是说他听说乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基将于周五访问华盛顿特区，以敲定这笔交易，“如果他愿意，我没问题。
“他想和我一起签名，”他补充道。“我知道这是一件大事，非常重要的事。”
然而，后来，他说，“我们已经基本谈妥了我们在原始地球上的交易。”
熟悉谈判的官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，美国和乌克兰对该协议的支持度为99.9%。尽管如此，在两位总统签字之前，该协议不会最终敲定，预计最早将于周五举行会晤时签字。
就在周一，特朗普还在重申，为了确保达成一项涉及该国继续支持乌克兰的协议，有必要获得乌克兰的稀土矿。特朗普称它们是针对美国已经做出和未来可能做出的投资的“证券”，尽管他声称美国迄今为止提供了多少援助广受争议.
特朗普说，美国已经在乌克兰花费了3500亿美元，尽管他没有提到他从哪里得到这个数字。
政府资源显示，自2022年战争开始以来，国会为乌克兰拨款的援助金额为1740亿美元。
“这就是为什么我们必须与乌克兰就关键矿产和稀土以及其他各种安全事务达成协议。我认为这正在发生。我认为我们已经取得了很多进展，”特朗普周一在与法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙的联合新闻发布会上说。两位领导人会晤讨论了解决俄罗斯-乌克兰战争的途径，这场战争本月已进入第三年。
这位高级官员还向美国广播公司证实，泽连斯基计划周五访问美国。
US, Ukraine agree to terms on mineral deal, Ukraine says
Ukraine and the United States have agreed to terms on a deal relating to critical minerals and other resources, according to a senior Ukrainian official.
While Ukraine has said it agreed to the deal, President Donald Trump did not confirm the U.S. had agreed yet, instead saying he had heard Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Washington, D.C., to finalize the deal on Friday and that "it's OK with me if he'd like to.
"And he would like to sign it together with me," he added. "And I understand that's a big deal, a very big deal."
However, later, he said, "We've pretty much negotiated our deal on raw earth."
Officials familiar with the negotiations told ABC News that the U.S. and Ukraine are 99.9% there on the deal. Still, the deal isn't going to be finalized until the presidents put their signatures on it, which is expected to happen as soon as Friday, when they are set to meet.
As recently as Monday, Trump was repeating that some access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals would be necessary to secure a deal involving the nation's continued support for Ukraine. Trump referred to them as a "security" against the investments that the U.S. has already made and might make in the future, although his claims of how much aid the U.S. has provided to date have beenwidely disputed.
Trump said the U.S. has spent $350 billion toward Ukraine, though he has not cited where he's gotten that figure.
Government resources place the amount of aid appropriated by Congress for Ukraine since the war began in 2022 at $174 billion.
"That is why we must have an agreement with Ukraine on critical minerals and rare earths and various other things as security. And I think that that's happening. I think we've made a lot of progress," Trump said on Monday during a joint press conference with France's President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders met to discuss a path forward to resolving the Russia-Ukraine war, which entered its third year this month.
The senior official also confirmed to ABC News that Zelenskyy plans to visit Washington on Friday.
