The United States and Ukraine have signed a "reconstruction" agreement, working towards Ukraine's economic recovery.
The deal will see the U.S. work with Ukraine's critical minerals deposits, and comes just two months after President Donald Trump, VP J.D. Vance and President Volodomyr Zelenskyy clashed at the White House, leading to an earlier deal being scrapped.
The new agreement will come in the form of an investment fund to help finance Ukraine's reconstruction after years of war, help pay back U.S. aid funds given to Ukraine and “ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery”.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who was part of the Washington group that signed the agreement, made it clear that Ukraine would maintain full autonomy of its resources however.
"It is the Ukrainian state that determines what and where to extract," she wrote on X.
"Its implementation allows both countries to expand their economic potential through equal cooperation and investment," Ms Svyrydenko said.
The U.S. convoy focused their post-signing message on peace.
“This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump Administration is committed to a peace process centred on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.
"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. And to be clear, no state or person who financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
