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US & Ukraine Sign Minerals 'Peace' Deal/PLUS Inside Russias Notorious Torture Prisons
US and Ukraine Sign Minerals Deal That Solidifies Investment in Kyivs Defence
Move seals a deal to create fund Trump says will begin to repay roughly $175bn provided to Ukraine
PLUS Inside Russias Notorious Taganrog: Beatings, Electrocution and Starvation at Prison Where Ukrainians Are Tortured
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.
The Guardian 1 MAY 2025
Excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil in February in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
The US and Ukraine have signed a deal to share mineral resources as part of US investment in the country to bolster its defences against Russian invasion.
The US and Kyiv have signed an agreement to share profits and royalties from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that Donald Trump has said will provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraines defense and its reconstruction after he brokers a peace deal with Russia.
The minerals deal, which has been the subject of tense negotiations for months and nearly fell through hours before it was signed, will establish a US Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund that the Trump administration has said will begin to repay an estimated $175bn in aid provided to Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term
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.
Ukraines first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, confirmed in a social media post that she had signed the agreement on Wednesday. Together with the United States, we are creating the fund that will attract global investment into our country, she wrote. The deal still needs to be approved by Ukraines parliament.
Ukrainian officials have divulged details of the agreement which they portrayed as equitable and allowing Ukraine to maintain control over its natural resources.
The Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said that the fund would be split 50-50 with between the US and Ukraine and give each side equal voting rights.
Ukraine would retain full control over its mineral resources, infrastructure and natural resources, he said, and would relate only to new investments, meaning that the deal would not provide for any debt obligations against Ukraine, a key concern for Kyiv.
Shmyhal on Wednesday described the deal as truly a good, equal and beneficial international agreement on joint investments in the development and recovery of Ukraine
Inside Notorious Taganrog Torture Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCiYjbr1AuI
Russias Ghost Detainees: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life
Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna lived by these words and paid the ultimate price for them. She wanted to report from the Ukrainian occupied zones to investigate the torture of civilians in informal detention centers.
She became one of these Ghost Detainees and died in custody. We also reveal the identities of several members of the Taganrog prison hierarchy and identify 29 Russian prisons where torture is systematic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRaiOvKH_e8
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