U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky are holding a high-stakes summit to sign a deal giving the U.S. access to Ukraine’s minerals.
The meeting comes after a war of words and tensions between the two presidents sparked by last week’s talks with Russia and Trump’s claims that Ukraine started the war.
The signing of the deal would be a way for American taxpayers to get paid back for their support to Ukraine during its three-year-long war with Russia.
“We’ll be digging. We’ll be dig, dig, digging. Dig, we must,” Trump said Thursday noting that the U.S. will do “a substantial amount of work” in Ukraine “ taking the rare earth, which we need in our country very badly.”
“It’ll be great for Ukraine. It’s like a huge economic development project. So, it’ll be good for both countries.”
