U.S. President Donald Trump has called the trip of the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine "wasted".
CBS News journalist Jennifer Jacobs reported this on X. Trump made the statement on Fox News Radio.
"Frankly I wish he didn't go there. It was a wasted trip," he said.
At the same time, Trump again accused the Ukrainian President of russia attacking Ukraine.
"When Zelenskyy said, oh, he wasn’t invited to a meeting, I mean, it wasn’t a priority because he did such a bad job in negotiating so far. Number one, you shouldn't have had a war, and if you did, it should have been solved and settled immediately. It could've been," the U.S. President argued.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 14, an insider from the American publication The Washington Post, Josh Rogin, wrote that Ukraine refused to sign a document that would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
On February 15, the British newspaper Financial Times wrote that Ukraine did not sign the agreement because the document did not contain clear security guarantees from the U.S.
On February 18, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna said that Ukraine had not rejected the agreement on rare earth minerals with the U.S.
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