“We do not recognize US assistance as a loan – we do not talk to Putin,” says the Ukrainian president.
Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski announced today that he has received a new version of the fossil of strategic importance from the United States, in which Washington wants to gain access.
“The Ukrainian side (…) officially received the US proposals today,” the Ukrainian president said in a press conference he gave, without revealing details of the new version.
According to local media, the proposal is not at all favorable to Ukraine.
The US government has been making a deal for several weeks that the US will gain access to Ukraine’s rare lands in exchange for military and financial aid already provided in Kiev to face the Russian invasion. Ukraine was ready to sign the deal and Zelenski went to Washington in late February but his visit ended up in direct broadcasting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
The details of the new version were not officially announced, but Ukrainian MPs and the media criticized it, describing the document “unacceptable”.
According to the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper, “Donald Trump’s team abandoned all the compromise agreed a month ago” and the new text “violates almost all the red lines” of Ukraine, which “lacks part of its national sovereignty” and is obliged to “pay” all.
The agreement makes no reference to security guarantees for Ukraine, as Kiev’s persistently calls for, the newspaper adds.
Zelenski confirmed that this was a “completely different” text from the original version that includes “many things that had not been discussed and some that had already been rejected”.
The quantity of Ukrainian mineral wealth is not clear, as most of these resources remain unused, whether it is difficult to extract them or are de facto under Russian control, since the deposits are in territories in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated positively in US investments in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.
Kiev states that he took back his 909 of his fallen soldiers
Ukraine announced today that it took back its 909 -year -old troops killed on the battlefield, in the largest exchange of this kind since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
“After repatriation activities, the bodies of 909 defenders of the fallen on the battlefield surrendered to Ukraine,” the Directorate -General for the treatment of prisoners wrote in a post on the Telegram.
Russia in turn took on the corpses of 43 fallen soldiers, Russian MP Samsail Saraliev, a member of the Coordination Team on the conflict in parliament, said in the RBK media.
The exchange of bodies of soldiers, as well as prisoners of war, is one of the rare areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kiev.
In February, the corpses of 757 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the battle had been handed over by Russia to Ukraine against the corpses of 45 Russian soldiers, three weeks after an exchange of the same size.
Moscow, and Kiev, secretly keep the details of their own military casualties, and the French agency does not mention the losses that each camp says it has brought to the other.
In a rare estimate she made public, speaking on the US television network NBC, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said in mid -February that more than 46,000 troops were killed and nearly 380,000 were injured. He also talked about “tens of thousands of others who are treated as missing or prisoners”.
Ukrainian war correspondent Yurii Boutusov, an independent journalist, said in December 2024 that his sources in the army ranks had counted 70,000 dead and 35,000 missing.
Various media, citing western sources, reported reports that were largely different, between 50,000 and 100,000 fallen in the battle.
Russia, for its part, has not announced the losses in the fall of 2022, when it admitted that it had at least 6,000 dead soldiers.
Several independent shapes based on open sources, such as the publication of death announcements, say very serious reports.
The Mediazona independent website and the BBC Russian service say they have identified up to almost 100,000 Russian soldiers dead.
At the end of 2024, then US defense minister Lloyd Austin had spoken of 700,000 Russian troops dead or injured.
Source: RES-EIA / CIPE