基辅和伦敦-美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)表示，他不会向乌克兰做出“非常多”的安全保证，因为美国正在考虑与乌克兰签署矿产协议。
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基表示，西方的安全保证是与俄罗斯停火的必要条件。
在周三第二任期的第一次内阁会议上，当被问及他愿意做出什么安全保证时，特朗普回应说:“我不会做出太多的安全保证。我们将让欧洲做到这一点。”
“我们正在谈论欧洲是隔壁邻居，”他继续说道。“但我们会确保一切顺利。”
川普宣布，他将于周五在白宫与泽连斯基签署矿产协议，并表示他的政府对该协议“感到满意”。他曾表示，获得乌克兰稀土矿的一些渠道，对于确保该国继续支持乌克兰的交易是必要的。
在结束乌克兰战争的问题上，特朗普表示，他有信心能够与俄罗斯达成一项可能结束冲突的协议，并指出俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京将不得不做出让步，尽管特朗普没有详细说明这些可能是什么。
俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫(Sergey Lavrov)表示，俄罗斯和美国高级外交官预计将于周四在伊斯坦布尔再次举行会谈。
泽连斯基强调未来的安全保障
泽连斯基周三早些时候在基辅举行的新闻发布会上说，乌克兰一直在为与美国达成矿产共享协议制定“初步框架”，但再次警告说，没有足够的西方安全保证，任何协议都不会成功。
泽连斯基说:“没有未来的安全保障，我们就不会有真正的停火。”。“如果我们没有它，什么都不会起作用。什么都不管用。”
泽连斯基告诉美国广播公司新闻，川普将与普京一起面临“许多挑战”。“这真的很难。我理解特朗普总统希望尽快完成。”
“但这不是与某人对话，”泽连斯基补充道。“他将与普京一起面临很多挑战，因为他不想结束战争。”
“最重要的是结束昨天的战争，”总统继续说道。“我们需要集中精力获得和平，而没有任何可能回到战争。这就是为什么我们把重点放在公正的和平和持久上。这比几周更重要。我们当然希望在几天之内。”
泽伦斯基还表示，他准备在安全保证问题上采取“灵活”的态度，暗示美国不需要成为这些保证的核心，但可以与其他国家一起做出贡献。总统补充说，他想问特朗普美国未来是否会停止美国的军事援助。他说，目前，援助没有冻结。
泽连斯基强调，任何矿产交易都不能让乌克兰因以前战时美国的拨款而负债。他说，这将打开一个“潘多拉的盒子”，允许其他国家要求偿还。
交易的细节
一名乌克兰高级官员周二表示，两国同意达成一项与关键矿产和其他资源相关的协议。
该交易的细节似乎表明，基辅已经成功地大幅改善了条款，或许会压制特朗普政府的一些更为苛刻的要求。
根据美国广播公司新闻获得的协议全文，特朗普要求的5000亿美元不再出现在协议中，乌克兰将支付的基金也不再是100%由美国所有。
根据协议，乌克兰同意将其自然资源总收入的50%捐给一只由乌克兰和美国共同拥有的基金。自然资源资产包括乌克兰政府直接或间接拥有的资产，定义为“矿藏、碳氢化合物、石油、天然气和其他可开采物质，以及与自然资源资产相关的其他基础设施(如液化天然气码头和港口基础设施)。”
“对该基金的捐款将至少每年再投资于乌克兰，以促进乌克兰的安全、安保和繁荣，这将在基金协议中进一步定义，”该协议称。
美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)的雷切尔·斯科特(Rachel Scott)周三早些时候问特朗普是否与泽连斯基谈过，他是否已经签署了矿产交易框架，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)表示，政府接近达成协议。
“正如特朗普总统所说，关键矿产交易和稀有钢铁绝对至关重要。莱维特说:“我们已经非常接近达成协议的终点线了。”。“总统昨天说，他欢迎泽连斯基来白宫签署协议，或者如果泽连斯基愿意的话，他可以来白宫参观。”
一名向美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)描述了交易细节的乌克兰官员表示，该协议将适用于目前没有为乌克兰预算做出贡献的资源，这意味着没有石油和天然气，或者可能是该国的大部分矿产资源。
如果最终的交易仍然接近这些条款，该交易实际上可能在实际经济方面受到相当大的限制。
瑞典前首相兼欧洲外交关系委员会联合主席卡尔·比尔特(Carl Bildt)告诉BBC新闻，这种矿物似乎是一种“杂耍”，主要是为了“让特朗普先生开心”。
“但它不会给美国带来很多钱，而且我认为它在很多年内不会产生任何实质性的经济影响，”比尔特告诉BBC。
Trump says Putin will have to make concessions, US won't make Ukraine guarantees 'beyond very much'
KYIV and LONDON --President Donald Trump said he will not make any security guarantees to Ukraine "beyond very much," as the United States eyes signing a minerals deal with Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Western security guarantees are necessary for a ceasefire in the war with Russia.
When asked during the first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday what security guarantees he's willing to make, Trump responded: "I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We're going to have Europe do that."
"We're talking about Europe is the next-door neighbor," he continued. "But we're going to make sure everything goes well."
Trump announced he will be signing the minerals deal with Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday and said his administration is "happy" with the deal. He has said that some access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals would be necessary to secure a deal involving the nation's continued support for Ukraine.
On the end to the war in Ukraine, Trump said he is confident about being able to reach a deal with Russia that could end the conflict and noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to make concessions, though Trump didn't go into detail on what those might be.
Senior Russian and U.S. diplomats are expected to hold talks again on Thursday in Istanbul, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Zelenskyy stresses future security guarantees
Zelenskyy told a press conference in Kyiv earlier on Wednesday that Ukraine has been working on a "preliminary framework" for a minerals-sharing deal with the U.S., but again warned that no agreement can succeed without sufficient Western security guarantees.
"Without future security guarantees, we will not have a real ceasefire," Zelenskyy said. "And if we don't have it, nothing will work. Nothing will work."
Zelenskyy told ABC News that Trump will face a "lot [of] challenges" with Putin. "It is very difficult really. I understand President Trump wants to do it quickly."
"But this is not dialogue with somebody," Zelenskyy added. "He will have a lot of challenges with Putin, because he doesn't want to end the war."
"The most important is to end the war yesterday," the president continued. "We need to focus to get peace without any possibility to get back to the war. That is why we are focusing on just peace and lasting. This is more important than weeks. Of course we want within days."
Zelensky also said he is ready to be "flexible" about security guarantees, suggesting the U.S. didn't need to be at the center of them but could contribute alongside other countries. The president added that he wants to ask Trump if the U.S. might stop American military aid in the future. For now, he said, there is no freeze in aid.
Zelenskyy stressed that any minerals deal cannot put Ukraine in debt for previous wartime American grants. That would open a "Pandora's box," he said, allowing other nations to demand repayments.
Details of the deal
The countries agreed to a deal relating to critical minerals and other resources, a senior Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
Details of the deal appear to suggest Kyiv has succeeded in significantly improving the terms, perhaps staring down some of the Trump administration's more onerous demands.
The $500 billion demanded by Trump no longer features in the deal, and the fund that Ukraine will pay into is also no longer going to be 100% U.S.-owned, according to the full text of the agreement obtained by ABC News.
Ukraine agreed to contribute 50% of all revenue from its natural resources to a fund jointly owned by Ukraine and the U.S., according to the deal. The natural resource assets include those directly or indirectly owned by the Ukrainian government and are defined as "deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas and other extractable materials, and other infrastructure relevant to natural resource assets (such as liquified natural gas terminals and port infrastructure)."
"Contributions made to the Fund will be reinvested at least annually in Ukraine to promote the safety, security and prosperity of Ukraine, to be further defined in the Fund Agreement," the deal states.
When asked earlier Wednesday by ABC News' Rachel Scott if Trump has spoken with Zelenskyy and if he's signed off on the minerals deal framework, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration is close to securing a deal.
"The critical minerals deal and the rare steel, as President Trump said, is absolutely pivotal. We're very close to the finish line and getting that deal done," Leavitt said. "And the president said yesterday, he'll welcome Zelenskyy to the White House to sign it or to visit if that's what Zelenskyy wants to do."
A Ukrainian official who described details of the deal to ABC News said the resources that the agreement will apply to are only those not currently contributing to the Ukrainian budget, which means no oil and gas, or likely the majority of the country's mineral resources.
If the final deal remains close to those terms, the deal may actually be quite restricted in real economic terms.
Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister and co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told BBC News that the mineral seems like a "sideshow" and was mostly designed to "keep Mr Trump happy."
"But it is not going to give a lot of money to the U.S., and I don't see it having any materially economic effect for very many years," Bildt told the BBC.
