{"id":66404,"date":"2025-05-01T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66404\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:56:11","slug":"russia-blasts-trump-over-mineral-deal-says-ukraine-will-soon-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66404\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blasts Trump over mineral deal, says Ukraine will soon &#8216;disappear&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Kremlin on Thursday blasted President Trump\u2019s historic mineral rights deal with Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/30\/us-news\/us-ukraine-sign-long-awaited-mineral-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inked a day earlier<\/a>, sarcastically praising the US leader for making a deal with a nation that will soon \u201cdisappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump has finally pressured the Kyiv regime to pay for US aid with mineral resources,\u201d Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Telegram. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the country that is about to disappear will have to use its national wealth to pay for military supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump meets with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican on April 26, 2025. PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE HANDOUT HANDOUT\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on May 1, 2025. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko after signing the minerals deal on April 30, 2025. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the country that is about to disappear will have to use its national wealth to pay for military supplies,\u201d Dmitry Medevev said after the US-Ukraine minerals deal was inked.  via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Unlike military aid packages under the Biden administration, Ukraine would pay the United States for these weapons \u2014 benefiting both Kyiv\u2019s defense and the US defense industry without the use of American taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s US-Ukraine Minerals Deal is a masterstroke,\u201d Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepJoeWilson\/status\/1917980464062566662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a post on X<\/a>. \u201cUkraine is now a permanent partner to the United States and both sides will benefit greatly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next step is strong secondary sanctions on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports by the Kyiv Post of a new $50 million deal were incorrect, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Kremlin on Thursday blasted President Trump\u2019s historic mineral rights deal with Ukraine inked a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,285,332,753,727,333,658],"class_list":{"0":"post-66404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-politics","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-ukraine-war","12":"tag-us-news","13":"tag-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114434106069850462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}