On April 30, in Washington, D.C., U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko signed a U.S.-Ukraine Agreement covering Ukrainian Minerals and Reconstruction. The deal appears to offer the United States no benefit.
There have been different reactions to their agreement.
On May 1, on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s broadcast “Judging Freedom,” guest Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) denounced the agreement, saying that at one level, it may have arisen from a desperate need by U.S. President Donald Trump to get and display “a win,” which he can display around to the American people, claiming that “Americans are going to get a trillion dollars of mineral wealth out of Ukraine.”
“In truth,” Macgregor said, the United States “is never going to see anything remotely like that, and what is even more discouraging, there is contained in this agreement, the promise of American military assistance, as part of the reciprocity involved with our first access to whatever mineral wealth there is.” Macgregor said that President Trump started with “a very good attempt to normalize relations with Moscow and to bring this war to [an] end,” but indicated this agreement could undermine that.
A Ukrainian patriot (in exile) Anatoly Shariy [noted in a video reviewing the agreement]( https://youtu.be/g9GkJERPdic?si=XkSdWXnT61ISAJXN) that it seems to contain no mention of U.S. military assistance in reciprocity for Ukraine giving the U.S. some wealth.
What we do know is that the agreement document, which started out as 80 pages, has been reduced to 8, though EIR has not been able to obtain a copy as yet.
The U.S. Treasury Department released a statement April 30 that reads:
