Shmyhal: No formal defense guarantees in minerals deal with US
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated that there are no formal defense guarantees in the agreement on the creation of the US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
"There are no formal defense guarantees in this agreement, but each new military aid provided by the United States to Ukraine is considered a capital contribution. This stimulates the US administration to continue and not stop supplying us with weapons, supplying us with intelligence data," he said during the Hour of Questions to the government in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday.
At the same time, the prime minister noted that the theses set out in the preamble to the agreement are references to security guarantees from the cooperation of the parties.
As reported, on Wednesday, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement on the establishment of the US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, which contains 12 articles and a list of critical materials, is of a financial nature. From Ukraine, the participant in the fund will be the Public-Private Partnership Agency (PPP) under the Ministry of Economy. After ratification, the creation of the fund itself will begin between the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Ukrainian PPP Agency, which operates within the Ministry of Economy.
