US national security adviser Mike Waltz has said Ukraine will sign a critical minerals deal with Washington in “the very short term”, even as Kyiv says several key points must still be agreed.
“Under [Donald] Trump, this war will end and it will end soon,” Waltz told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Friday. “He is the president of peace.”
Trump called Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week in an opening attempt to end the conflict. He then dispatched senior US officials to meet the Kremlin’s representatives in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday but Zelenskyy was not invited.