It seems that Ukrainian Leader Volodymyr Zelensky has decided on a path that’ll send him clashing with US President Donald J. Trump and his administration.
Besides repeatedly breaching the Trump-brokered partial ceasefire on energy and infrastructure, Zelensky has now made a TV statement that contains at least two very controversial points.
First, he again stated that the hundreds of billions of dollars in US aid to the Kiev regime were NOT ‘loans’, but rather, donations – despite the fact that nothing was ever registered as such.
Secondly, he alerted that Ukraine will NOT sign the reworked rare-earth/mineral exploration deal, although his aides had assured US officials that the deal was ready to be signed.
Watch: Zelensky confronts the US, says NO DEAL and NO DEBT.
IMPORTANT: Zelensky confronts the US and says NO DEAL!
He says:– Ukraine will not acknowledge the past debt!– US can not sent any conditions on Ukraine, unless they send new aid!– Zelensky is not ready to sign the new agreement!
Zelensky: “This administration will… pic.twitter.com/duIl3m0UGT
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) March 28, 2025
Zelensky also complained that the US would no longer provide free aid to Ukraine: ‘This administration will not do anything for free for us!’
Washington Post reported (via Sputnik):
“The new US [mineral rights] proposal radically changes the conditions sent by Kiev to Trump and does not provide any security guarantees.
[…] The document treats all U.S. support to Ukraine since the conflict began as a debt that must be repaid with interest on revenues earned under the agreement. It gives the U.S. ‘first come, first served’ rights to all energy and mineral investments, effectively putting the U.S. in control.
A senior Ukrainian official said the project raises serious concerns because it reclassifies previous U.S. grants as loans that must be repaid and requires Washington to take ‘50 per cent of all new and existing revenue without making any contribution of its own’.”
On top of it all, Zelensky said that he reached agreements with ‘certain European countries’ for the sharing of intelligence data and to ramp up weapons manufacturing.
Zelensky says he reached agreements with certain European countries for intelligence data and weapons manufacturing!
Looks like zelensky plans to abandon the US and fully rely on Europe, since Europe gives everything for free and does not demand the money back. https://t.co/qucjcSTOia pic.twitter.com/DUPW9u5sHg
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) March 28, 2025
