Ukraine aims to 'align' with US on minerals deal in talks this week

(Reuters) - Ukraine volition nonstop a squad to Washington this week to determination guardant with negotiations connected a much expansive draught for a minerals woody offered by the United States, the lawman premier curate said connected Monday.

"We purpose to align connected task selection, ineligible frameworks, and semipermanent concern mechanisms," Yulia Svyrydenko said connected X.

The U.S. medication wants Kyiv to hold to springiness it an immense involvement successful Ukraine's aboriginal mineral income. President Donald Trump sees it arsenic a mode to get backmost billions of assistance for Ukraine's combat against Russia. Kyiv is anxious to support the enactment of its state but wary of signing distant its aboriginal wealth.

In precocious March, Washington presented Kyiv with a revised draught importantly broader than an earlier mentation that had been agreed.

Svyrydenko said the dialog with the U.S. reflects the countries' strategical interests and "our shared committedness to gathering a strong, transparent partnership".

The Ukrainian delegation to Washington volition see representatives of the economy, foreign, justness and concern ministries, she added.

Kyiv officials person been cautious astir commenting connected the draft, a summary of which suggested the U.S. was demanding each Ukraine's earthy resources income for years.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Kyiv would not recognise past U.S. assistance arsenic loans that indispensable beryllium repaid, oregon hold to a woody that threatened its aboriginal integration with the EU.

(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Gareth Jones and Peter Graff)