According to this article, he has done just that:Speaking on board Air Force One later on Sunday, Trump accused the Ukrainian leader of attempting to back out of the deal.
“If he does that, he’s got some problems, big, big problems,” Trump told reporters.
Zelensky Defies Trump: Denies Aid Is a Loan, Rejects Mineral Deal
It seems that Ukrainian Leader Volodymyr Zelensky has decided on a path that’ll send him clashing with US President Donald J. Trump and his administration.
Besides repeatedly breaching the Trump-brokered partial ceasefire on energy and infrastructure, Zelensky has now made a TV statement that contains at least two very controversial points.
First, he again stated that the hundreds of billions of dollars in US aid to the Kiev regime were NOT ‘loans’, but rather, donations – despite the fact that nothing was ever registered as such.
Secondly, he alerted that Ukraine will NOT sign the reworked rare-earth/mineral exploration deal, although his aides had assured US officials that the deal was ready to be signed.
Watch: Zelensky confronts the US, says NO DEAL and NO DEBT.
Zelensky also complained that the US would no longer provide free aid to Ukraine: ‘This administration will not do anything for free for us!’
Washington Post reported (via Sputnik):
“The new US [mineral rights] proposal radically changes the conditions sent by Kiev to Trump and does not provide any security guarantees.
[…] The document treats all U.S. support to Ukraine since the conflict began as a debt that must be repaid with interest on revenues earned under the agreement. It gives the U.S. ‘first come, first served’ rights to all energy and mineral investments, effectively putting the U.S. in control.
A senior Ukrainian official said the project raises serious concerns because it reclassifies previous U.S. grants as loans that must be repaid and requires Washington to take ‘50 per cent of all new and existing revenue without making any contribution of its own’.”
On top of it all, Zelensky said that he reached agreements with ‘certain European countries’ for the sharing of intelligence data and to ramp up weapons manufacturing.
Trump needs to b angry with the little creep Zelensky and stop being angry with Putin.