Did a US Rep. say that Trump would ‘Welcome’ a European Troop deployment to Ukraine after a cease-fire?
Putin ain’t happy with this developing plan….
(See map below)
Europe sends more Billion’s in aid to Ukraine….
Trump is still trying to get Ukraine mineral’s , as a payback for Biden’s ‘grants’ to Ukraine….
Without American Security assurances?
Trump IS wasting his breath….
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Now Trump wants Ukraine to hand over it’s pipeline from Russia for Gas to the US?
Russian forces seem to have slowed their attacks against Ukraine …
Russian drone’s keep landing on civilian targets in Ukraine….
The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.
US and Ukrainian officials met on Friday to discuss White House proposals for a minerals deal. Donald Trump wants Kyiv to hand over its natural resources as “payback” in return for weapons delivered by the previous Biden administration.
Talks have become increasingly acrimonious, Reuters said. The latest US draft is more “maximalist” than the original version from February, which proposed giving Washington $500bn worth of rare metals, as well as oil and gas.
Citing a source close to the talks, the news agency said the most recent document includes a demand that the US government’s International Development Finance Corporation take control of the natural gas pipeline.
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On 1 January, Ukraine cut off the supply of gas when its five-year contract with the Russian state energy company Gazprom expired. Both countries had previously earned hundreds of millions of euros in transit fees, including during the first three years of full-scale war.
Volodymyr Landa, a senior economist with the Centre for Economic Strategy, a Kyiv thinktank, said the Americans were out for “all they can get”. Their bullying “colonial-type” demands had little chance of being accepted by Kyiv, he predicted.
Last autumn, Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed giving the US access to Ukraine’s underdeveloped mineral sector. He envisaged a deal that would see the incoming Trump administration supply Ukraine with weapons, in return for future profits from joint investments.
Instead, Trump has refused to give security commitments or military support but wants the minerals anyway. Last week he complained Zelenskyy was trying to “back out of an agreement” and said Ukraine’s president would have “big problems” if he failed to sign…
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Early on Saturday, Russia carried out further air attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets. Three warehouses were destroyed in Kyiv, with two people injured. The Kremlin has fired 70 missiles and 2,200 drones at Ukraine since the 11 March US ceasefire proposal, Ukrainian officials said….
ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 12, 2025
- US Special Envoy to Ukraine General Keith Kellogg expressed support on April 11 for the deployment of an allied “reassurance force” in the rear areas of western Ukraine after a possible future ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.
- Russian state-owned and pro-Kremlin media amplified a Russian official’s blanket rejection of any peacekeeping force in Ukraine on April 12.
- Russian forces have resumed a more typical strike pattern in late March and early April 2025 after a temporary spike in the size of Russian long-range strike packages in mid-February and early March 2025.
- People’s Republic of China (PRC) military officials reportedly visited the frontline in Ukraine to glean insights for future warfare amid reports that at least 155 Chinese nationals are fighting in Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s European partners announced additional military aid packages within the context of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) meeting on April 11.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Kurakhove, and Russian forces recently advanced in Sumy Oblast and near Toretsk and Pokrovsk.
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