Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday that Ukraine and the United States have reached preliminary agreement on a broad economic deal that includes U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals amid its three-year war with Russia.

Trump also says "we're going to make a deal with Russia and Ukraine" to stop the war - adding Moscow will have to make concessions.

President Donald Trump says Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House on Friday to sign a critical minerals deal. Trump made the announcement Wednesday at start of his first Cabinet meeting.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday that Ukraine and the United States have reached preliminary agreement on a broad economic deal that includes U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals amid its three-year war with Russia.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday that Ukraine and the United States have reached preliminary agreement on a broad economic deal that includes U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals amid its three-year war with Russia.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal is seen on a screen during press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there would be a need for "some form of peacekeeping" in Ukraine following a peace deal.

President Zelenskyy is expected to sign the raw minerals deal when he meets Donald Trump in Washington on Friday

Russia does not stop in its attempts to leave Ukraine without its own gas, firing missiles at production facilities almost daily. — Ukrinform.

The village is located near a key transit artery and Pokrovsk, an important logistics hub for Ukraine. Ukraine’s military also said it had attacked Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea coast,