"President Trump envisioned this partnership between the American people and the Ukrainian people to show both sides' commitment to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine."The full text of the agreement has not yet been released. Sviridenko said the fund will be jointly managed by Ukraine and the US "on a 50/50 basis," and that "neither side will hold a dominant vote." She said that 50% of the revenue from new licenses in the fields of critical materials, oil, and gas will be directed to the fund.
"Full ownership and control remain with Ukraine. It is the Ukrainian state that determines what and where to extract. Subsoil remains under Ukrainian ownership - this is clearly established in the Agreement."
"For a hundred days he has done efforts to bring about peace... Look, we've gotten closer. We - for the first time - we haven't known this for three years - we kind of can see what it would take for Ukraine to stop. We can see what it would take for the Russians to stop.However, stark differences between Moscow and Kiev remain, the State Secretary noted.
"They're closer, but they're still far apart. And it's going to take a real breakthrough here very soon to make this possible... or I think the president is going to have to make a decision about how much more time we're going to dedicate to this."
The Trump administration is prepared to dedicate another 100 days to mediating a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, US Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News in an interview published on Wednesday. He said the US has made progress by getting both sides to present their ideas for resolving the conflict.
Reflecting on the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term, the vice president said:"We've got this first step. We've got the peace proposal out there and issued, and we're going to work very hard over the next 100 days to try to bring these guys together. Before the Trump administration got involved Moscow and Kiev weren't even talking - not to each other, not to anybody. They were just fighting. Now, the work of diplomacy is to try to sort of bring these two sides closer together, the very big gulf between what the Russians want and what the Ukrainians want."On Thursday, Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, said Kiev had agreed to acknowledge Russia's control over what it considers "occupied territories," while stopping short of officially recognizing Russian sovereignty.
"Partially, yes. Look, the Ukrainians, Martha, have already said - they're willing to give up the land... not de jure - forever - but de facto because the Russians actually occupied it. They've agreed to that. They told me that last week."Kellogg added that Ukraine wants a ceasefire that would mean "you sit on the ground that you currently hold."
Israeli Newspaper: downing of US F-18 aircraft reveals a significant challenge posed by the Houthis in YemenThere was a few days earlier:
Last updated Dec 25, 2024 4:25 PM
WORLD, Dec. 25 (YPA) - A Hebrew newspaper considered on Tuesday that the incident of downing US F-18 aircraft reveals the significant challenge posed by the Houthis in Yemen, not only to Israel but also to the United States.
The newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth indicated that it believes the "coalition's ability — led by the United States — to deter the Houthis is now in doubt, after the group showed resilience in the face of airstrikes."
The Sanaa forces had announced that they carried out a large-scale attack against the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman earlier this week, which resulted in the crash of an American plane due to fire from the US military itself.
@E.Y.M
Yemen armed forces declare targeting aircraft carrier USS Harry S. TrumanWhat we know is that somehow, the plane was lost, but how much was merely damaged but not lost? Why did the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, probably accompanied by some smaller ships, prefer to at least temporarily withdraw from the scene? Until now, there are few answers.
Last updated Dec 22, 2024 6:22 PM
SANAA, Dec. 22 (YPA) - The Yemeni armed forces declared on Sunday its carried out a large military operation that targeted the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and a number of its destroyers in conjunction with the start of the UK-US aggressive attack on Yemen.
Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sarie, said in a televised statement that the operation, which was carried out with eight cruise missiles and 17 drones against the aircraft carrier and destroyers, led also to the downing of an F-18 aircraft.
The spokesman affirmed that the destroyers were trying to confront the Yemeni drones and missiles during the operation, as well as most of the US warplanes leaving Yemeni airspace for international waters in the Red Sea to defend the aircraft carrier.
Brig. Gen. Sarie revealed the operation also led to the withdrawal of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman towards the northern Red Sea after being subjected to more than one missile and drone attacks.
"The Yemeni Armed Forces succeed in confronting and thwarting the American-British aggression," the spokesman added, renewing the full readiness to confront any American-British-Israeli foolishness during the coming period."
He warned the Israeli and American enemies against any aggression against Yemen, stressing that Yemeni military would use their full right to defend Yemen and continue to support the Palestinian people until the aggression against Gaza is stopped and the siege is lifted.
AA
"Moldovan territory and its citizens continue to be used by Ukrainian intelligence services — with the connivance of the [Moldovan President Maia] Sandu regime — for recruiting and training agents, supplying them with tools of terror, and subsequently sending them into Russia to carry out terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage."Last week, Russia deported a former Moldovan intelligence operative and barred him from re-entering the country for the next 60 years.
"conducting exercises at our borders at a scale unseen in decades. ... They are training for conducting a broad offensive from Vilnius to Odessa, seizing Kaliningrad region, imposing a naval blockade in the Baltic and the Black Seas and executing preventive strikes on the staging locations of Russian nuclear deterrence forces."If Mr. Patrushev is correct, it would appear that London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels are actively preparing for war against Russia. But his statement that the exercises are "at a scale unseen in decades," needs to be put in context.
Comment: The mineral saga was not without drama: Ukraine backtracks on resources deal - US Treasury: The US now has physical investment in Ukraine - a resource to protect on a global basis no matter what Ukraine does in the future. Is it worth it?