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The United States has asked for management of an important Ukraine pipeline that services Russian gas transport to Europe, as indicated by the Reuters.
Last Friday, both American and Ukrainian officials met to discuss a White House offer regarding a minerals contract.
United States President Donald Trump wishes for Kyive to hand over its natural resources to Washington under the pretext “payback” for arms issued by the US during the previous Biden administration.
According to the report, the negotiations have grown more heated with the last version from the US being even more “maximalist” than the initial draft from February. The earlier draft suggested providing the US with rare metals valued at $500 billion alongside an additional offer of oil and gas.
The source cited in the statement also added the chances for significant progress were low considering the meeting’s antagonistic environment.
One of the many “Easter eggs” hidden in the document, as the report stated, was the United States clause empowering the International Developemnt Fellowship Corporation to gain control over a natiral gas pipeline owned by Gazprom that runs through Ukraine to service Europe.
The gas pipeline stretches southwest from the Gazprom town Sudzha in western Russia to Ukraine’s Uzhhorod city which is approximately 1,200 Km from the border with EU’s Slovakia.
It was constructed during the Soviet era and remains one of the principal systems of national infrastructure, as well as a vital energy pathway.
On January 1, after a five-year contract with Gazprom, Ukraine turned off the gas supply. Both nations had previously received hundreds of millions of euros in earnings for the transit, including the first three years of full-scale conflict.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Wednesday that a deal concerning minerals should be beneficial for both nations and it could be fashioned in a manner as to modernize Ukraine.
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