WHEREAS the United States of America has provided significant financial and material support to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; WHEREAS the American people desire to invest alongside Ukraine in a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine;

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that the new agreement on mineral resource use with the United States does not contain any provisions regarding Ukraine’s "debt" to the US. Source: Zelenskyy’s comments to Ukrainian journalists on Wednesday,

It comes as Ukraine has reportedly agreed on terms of deal with the US allowing joint development of mineral resources.