{"id":17641,"date":"2025-04-05T18:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/i-hope-trump-wont-deceive-us-ukrainians-are-wary-of-u-s-minerals-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:55:47","slug":"i-hope-trump-wont-deceive-us-ukrainians-are-wary-of-u-s-minerals-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/i-hope-trump-wont-deceive-us-ukrainians-are-wary-of-u-s-minerals-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Hope Trump Won\u2019t Deceive Us\u2019: Ukrainians Are Wary of U.S. Minerals Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Ukrainian geologist was shopping in his local market recently for pork belly, lard, salmon and grapes when he heard the shouts of a man who seemed drunk, complaining about President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Zelensky ask us before giving away our minerals to the Americans?\u201d he yelled. A woman joined in: \u201cThe Americans are coming to take everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The geologist, Volodymyr Savytskyi, 75, kept quiet. He is more hopeful about the potential minerals agreement that has dominated conversations \u2014 and exposed tensions \u2014 between his country and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe just need to survive,\u201d Mr. Savytskyi said. \u201cI hope Trump won\u2019t deceive us. I really hope he won\u2019t. I believe the Americans should come, invest their money here, make their profit, but we should also get our fair share \u2014 our piece of the pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the central Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad, one of the country\u2019s leading mining areas, reactions to the proposed deal are a mix of wary hopefulness, fatalism and anger. After years of trying to resist Russian influence and align with the West, many here reflexively view American investment positively, and are willing to use their natural resources to support the country\u2019s most important ordeal, fending off Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And yet, there are signs of growing skepticism about the terms and whether the United States, and specifically the Trump administration, can be trusted. Some people endorse the deal because they see Ukraine as having no other choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainian authorities say the country holds deposits of more than <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/world\/europe\/trump-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals.html\" title=\"\">20 critical minerals<\/a>; one consulting firm <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/ukraines-mineral-wealth-global-markets-the-secdev-group\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">valued them as being worth several trillion dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration is seeking future profits from these minerals, which it calls repayment for military aid the United States has given Ukraine since Russia invaded more than three years ago. In return, the U.S. would, in theory, continue to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The deal has taken longer to reach than expected. An initial version fell apart at a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-zelensky-us-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">disastrous White House meeting<\/a> in late February. A new American proposal, made public in late March, is much more onerous for Ukrainians. Kyiv has said it would negotiate to improve the terms before signing a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Critics derided it as a kind of blackmail. Some Ukrainians said it effectively steals resources from Ukraine while providing no security guarantees for the nation\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andriy Brodsky, who founded Velta, a leading private Ukrainian titanium company that could profit from a deal, said, \u201cThis is a win-win story if it\u2019s done properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he stressed that any agreement should be fair to both countries. He said the deal should be a new Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe after World War II while allowing American companies to profit. Six potential American investors had already approached Velta, wanting to join forces, Mr. Brodsky added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, extracting minerals here is not like going to an A.T.M.: Although Velta started operations in 2003, it took until 2012 to start producing titanium from the large ilmenite deposits in Kirovohrad. Maps of Ukraine\u2019s mineral deposits date back to Soviet times and aren\u2019t <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spglobal.com\/market-intelligence\/en\/news-insights\/articles\/2025\/2\/ukraine-rare-earths-potential-relies-on-soviet-assessments-may-not-be-viable-87318842\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">necessarily reliable<\/a>, experts say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Environmentalists hope that U.S. investors might bring cleaner practices and better worker protections to the mines, but there have been no such guarantees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Savytskyi, who grins to his ears when he talks about minerals, is a tour guide for everything below the surface here. He helped write an oft-cited paper in 2000 that outlines the region\u2019s deposits of graphite, lithium, uranium and titanium, minerals that Mr. Trump is interested in. The Inhulska uranium mine, where he worked for about 23 years, is three miles from his front door.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The history of uranium extraction here, stretching back more than 60 years, shows how difficult it is to exploit minerals, even when there is a lot of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1963, Soviet geologists drilled a well in the Inhul River valley, near the city of Kropyvnytskyi, to get water for a nearby plant. They found radiation. Core samples showed high levels of uranium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was considered a jackpot. The Soviet Union was in a nuclear arms race with the United States. Moscow quickly poured \u201ca river of money\u201d into developing that first mine, completing the work in just four years, said Mr. Savytskyi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He arrived in the area in 1973 \u2014 a nerdy Cold Warrior, part of a secret geology research team \u2014 and started work on what was seen as a much richer uranium field beneath Kropyvnytskyi. If anyone asked what he was doing when he dug core samples in the city\u2019s center, Mr. Savytskyi said he was looking for construction materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It took 10 years to develop that deposit, which together with the Inhulska mine became part of the state-run Eastern Mining and Processing Plant, now one of the world\u2019s largest uranium mining facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in 1986, the Chernobyl disaster about 270 miles northwest \u2014 the largest nuclear accident in world history \u2014 dampened Moscow\u2019s enthusiasm for Ukrainian uranium. Mr. Savytskyi\u2019s research lost funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1996, five years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Mr. Savytskyi started working at the Inhulska mine. Over the years, it had its problems: The mine was not always profitable; workers were not always paid. For a time, nepotism and corruption were endemic, Mr. Savytskyi said. Workers often had health problems caused by radiation exposure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Liudmyla Shestakova, who works with the environmental nonprofit <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/flora.kr.ua\/en\/#:~:text=%22Flora%22%20NGO%20has%20been%20in,religious%20and%20non%2Dgovernmental%20organization!\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flora<\/a> in Kropyvnytskyi, now a city of 220,000, took The New York Times on a tour around the Inhulska mine to look at the hills of leftover tailings that surround it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This waste is mildly radioactive. When the wind blows or the rain pours, the results are predictably bad for the environment. Ukraine\u2019s environmental rules lag behind the West\u2019s: Asbestos wasn\u2019t banned until 2017. Radon seems omnipresent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just outside Kropyvnytskyi, people fill jugs with water from a nearby spring that catches runoff from the mine. (They also take a constitutional cold-water dip in that spring, even on crisp February mornings.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Shestakova, 65, said she generally believes U.S. investment might improve things, reflecting the durable good will Americans still have toward Ukraine, even with current tensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the investment comes through and it\u2019s done responsibly \u2014 not with reckless mining practices \u2014 we fully support it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Ms. Shestakova voiced concern that Mr. Trump\u2019s latest proposal is one-sided. She worries Ukraine will give away its natural resources with no guarantees for investments, environmental protections or the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s as if Ukraine gets nothing at all,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a cemetery below a hill of uranium tailings, Nadiia Matsko, 65, recently visited the graves of family members; her husband, who worked underground as a miner, later died of diabetes. She was pragmatic about a deal with the Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf those minerals are lying there, and our people are not extracting them, and there is not any profit now, then if someone does it, and we get jobs and some percentage of the profit, then let them do it,\u201d Ms. Matsko said, shrugging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Maryna Vinnik, 64, immerses herself every morning in the spring that includes runoff from the mine. Ms. Vinnik is a librarian; her son is on the front lines. She said she has worried constantly over how the relationship with the United States has deteriorated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen we had strong support, everything felt different,\u201d she said, standing barefoot on the snow, wrapped in a towel. \u201cThere\u2019s a saying: \u2018You can have this, but this also will take the shirt off your back.\u2019 That\u2019s how I view this agreement \u2014 as an unavoidable price we must accept. I don\u2019t understand politics, but this feeling is heavy. In the past few days, I\u2019ve been crying a lot and feeling deep sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Savytskyi, who is a friend of Ms. Vinnik and believes her daily dips are probably harmless, still lives in the same apartment assigned to him by the Soviet Union about 40 years ago. Geology books like \u201cOverseas Uranium Deposits\u201d sit near his favorite chair, along with many of the minerals he holds dear: the core sample of granite, the smoky quartz from inside the Inhulska mine, the fluorite, the onyx, the gabbro, the glaucophane feldspar, all from deep in the ground of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His head was full of minerals, but he wasn\u2019t oblivious to the war. A nearby missile strike had caused a power outage that morning. In 2022, he said, his family practically lived in the building\u2019s basement because of shelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s why I support this agreement,\u201d he said. He added: \u201cYou understand that we are at war, and we must defend ourselves. 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