‘Let’s do a deal’: Zelenskyy calls Trump’s terms acceptable for security partnership

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is preparing to conscionable with Vice President JD Vance astatine the Munich Security Conference aboriginal this week aft confirming connected Friday helium is acceptable to "do a deal" with President Donald Trump.

According to an interrogation with Reuters, Zelenskyy said helium was acceptable to proviso the U.S. with rare-earth minerals successful speech for Washington’s continued backing of its warfare effort.

"If we are talking astir a deal, past let's do a deal, we are lone for it," Zelenskyy said. 

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said helium is acceptable to "do a deal" with President Trump astir Ukraine's rare-earth minerals successful speech for continued fiscal support. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

The Ukrainian president has made wide helium is besides unfastened to engaging successful bid talks with Russia to extremity the three-year-long war, though imaginable presumption for securing a bid woody stay varied and unknown. 

Though Zelenskyy has said helium is looking for "guarantees" erstwhile it comes to aboriginal information assurances for the war-torn country.

These information assurances volition apt request to beryllium much than a ceremonial handshake paired with a signed document, arsenic Russia has doubly violated its past statement with Ukraine, known arsenic the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. 

The woody saw Kyiv manus implicit its atomic arsenal to Moscow for dismantlement successful speech for sovereignty and independency guarantees from Russia, the U.S. and the U.K. However, the statement did not halt Russia from invading Ukraine doubly nether Russian President Vladimir Putin.  

Zelenskyy seemingly archetypal floated the thought of trading Ukraine’s mineral resources – astir 20% of which are located successful present Russian controlled territory, including fractional of the rare-earth assortment – nether his "victory plan" archetypal presented to Western allies past fall, reported Reuters. 

Rare-earth materials are utilized successful the accumulation of user electronics and electrical engines. Zelenskyy has warned that Russia could springiness these resources to its allies similar North Korea and Iran – the second of which the U.S. conscionable past week began to adjacent much heavy sanction. 

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Former President Donald Trump meets with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy astatine Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, successful New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

"We request to halt Putin and support what we person – a precise affluent Dnipro region, cardinal Ukraine," Zelenskyy reportedly said.

While Trump volition not be the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy volition pb the Ukrainian delegation determination and is reportedly expected to meet with Vance and peculiar envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg.

Trump told reporters past week that Zelenskyy whitethorn question to D.C. successful the week pursuing the information conference, which runs Feb. 14-16, astatine which clip some presidents volition erstwhile again conscionable to sermon the war. 

"I'd similar to spot that warfare end," Trump told reporters past week. "We're looking to bash a woody with Ukraine wherever they're going to unafraid what we're giving them with their uncommon world and different things."

Russia’s warfare effort successful eastbound Ukraine continues to rage, and Moscow connected Friday claimed it had captured the mining municipality of Toretsk successful the Donetsk portion contempt Ukraine’s months-long attempts to halt Russian advances. 

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The ruins of the metropolis of Toretsk are successful the Donetsk region, eastbound Ukraine, connected Dec. 19, 2024. Russia, connected Feb. 7, 2025, claimed to person yet seized the mining city. (Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

As Moscow continues to spot incremental gains successful eastbound Ukraine, Kyiv is besides pushing guardant with its ain attempts to prehend Russian territory, which information experts person told Fox News Digital could beryllium an effort to springiness it amended bargaining leverage travel the clip for ceasefire talks with Moscow.

Zelenskyy besides said connected Friday that Ukraine had opened a caller violative successful Russia’s Kursk region, wherever Kyiv archetypal began its incursion successful August 2024.

"In the areas of the Kursk operation, caller assaults person taken place," Zelenskyy said during his nightly address. "Russia has erstwhile again deployed North Korean soldiers alongside its troops."

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Ukrainian forces combat successful the Kursk portion successful Malaya Loknya, Russia, successful this surface drawback obtained from a handout video released connected Aug. 20, 2024. (Air Assault Brigade/Handout via Reuters)

It is unclear if North Korea has sent much troops to Russia aft its archetypal deployment of arsenic galore arsenic 12,000 men past October, though South Korean quality has warned Pyongyang is readying to bash so.

Zelenskyy Sunday nighttime said Ukrainian troops successful Kursk "demonstrate highly effectual force destruction," though helium did not item immoderate casualty rates among Russian oregon North Korean troops. 

"We indispensable clasp each our positions firmly," helium said. "The stronger we basal connected the beforehand lines, the stronger our diplomacy – our enactment with partners – volition be."