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Ukraine, U.S. Sign Economic Deal for Minerals​

The two countries finally reach an agreement after several false starts​


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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed the deal as a step toward a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine and a beginning of the country’s reconstruction. In tightly controlled negotiations, the Trump administration dropped its insistence that the agreement allow Washington to recoup billions of dollars of past military aid.

“As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” Bessent said in a press release. “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.”

The agreement marks an improvement in relations between Kyiv and Washington, which have soured in recent months, not least over the deal for Ukraine’s minerals. A one-on-one meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Vatican ahead of Pope Francis’ funeral last weekend, appears to have eased tensions between the two leaders.…”
 
nycfan said:

Ukraine, U.S. Sign Economic Deal for Minerals​

The two countries finally reach an agreement after several false starts​


🎁 🔗 —> https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/uk...c6?st=CmwHFY&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

“…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed the deal as a step toward a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine and a beginning of the country’s reconstruction. In tightly controlled negotiations, the Trump administration dropped its insistence that the agreement allow Washington to recoup billions of dollars of past military aid.

“As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” Bessent said in a press release. “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.”

The agreement marks an improvement in relations between Kyiv and Washington, which have soured in recent months, not least over the deal for Ukraine’s minerals. A one-on-one meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Vatican ahead of Pope Francis’ funeral last weekend, appears to have eased tensions between the two leaders.…”
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What a country we've become. Let's manipulate a deal to enrich ourselves as a bargaining chip to help stop an invading country against our ally. We are rotten to the core.
 
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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
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Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”.


It would be weeks before officials could confirm what the Guardian and its reporting partners are publishing today. The unlabelled remains were those of a woman. Not a soldier, either, but one of the most high-profile civilians detained since the full-scale invasion.

The journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured in the summer of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. It was at least her fourth reporting trip into the occupied territories. She was by this stage of the war the only Ukrainian journalist prepared to risk crossing the frontline in order to pierce the information blackout imposed by Russia.

Roshchyna died after a year in detention, aged 27.

Information on the circumstances of her death is limited. Roshchyna was held without charge and without access to a lawyer. During her detention, her only known contact with the outside world was a four-minute phone call to her parents, a full year after she was taken.

Preliminary forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”, according to the prosecutor. Burn marks on her feet from electric shocks, abrasions on the hips and head, and a broken rib. Her hair, which she liked to wear long and tinted blonde at the tips, had been shaved.

Sources close to the official investigation have also disclosed that the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation. However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.

A war crimes investigation has been opened with a view to prosecuting those responsible.
 
altmin said:
www.theguardian.com

‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”.


It would be weeks before officials could confirm what the Guardian and its reporting partners are publishing today. The unlabelled remains were those of a woman. Not a soldier, either, but one of the most high-profile civilians detained since the full-scale invasion.

The journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was captured in the summer of 2023 near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station. It was at least her fourth reporting trip into the occupied territories. She was by this stage of the war the only Ukrainian journalist prepared to risk crossing the frontline in order to pierce the information blackout imposed by Russia.

Roshchyna died after a year in detention, aged 27.

Information on the circumstances of her death is limited. Roshchyna was held without charge and without access to a lawyer. During her detention, her only known contact with the outside world was a four-minute phone call to her parents, a full year after she was taken.

Preliminary forensics suggest “numerous signs of torture”, according to the prosecutor. Burn marks on her feet from electric shocks, abrasions on the hips and head, and a broken rib. Her hair, which she liked to wear long and tinted blonde at the tips, had been shaved.

Sources close to the official investigation have also disclosed that the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation. However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.

A war crimes investigation has been opened with a view to prosecuting those responsible.
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Of all the things that confound me about MAGA, I will never understand how they turned the GOP from "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" to "Vladimir, stop!," while simultaneously demanding Ukraine's mineral rights as part of a deal that gives Putin everything he wants. Reagan was FAR from perfect, but his balls were 1,000 times larger than the eunuchs that make up today's GOP.
 
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