At a cabinet meeting, US President Donald Trump confirmed that an agreement has been reached for US access to Ukraine's mineral resources.
His speech was broadcast on the White House YouTube channel.
“We made a deal where our money is safe and we can start mining and do what we need to do“, Trump said.
“This is also good for them, Ukraine, because they will have an American presence at the mining site, and an American presence will keep a lot of bad guys out of the country, or rather, out of the area where we're mining.“