Kiev must receive aid without connected chains during the conflict with Russia, and the advisor insisted
German Chancellor Olaf Scholls criticized US President Donald Trump for insisting that Ukraine should provide Washington by reaching its rare minerals on the ground for more military aid during the conflict with Russia.
Trump said last week that the United States “Place hundreds of billions of dollars” In Ukraine, which has “Great rare land. I want the rare land security, and they are ready to do it [that]” On Friday, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelinski confirmed that he would be ready to reach an agreement on Kiev’s deposits for Al -Leithium, titanium, and other heavy metals. “If we were talking about a deal, let’s do a deal, we just for that,” He said. However, Zelinski admitted that about half of what Kiev claims to have his rare land in Russia -controlled areas.
When asked about Trump’s request to the rare Ukrainian land during an interview with RedakchesnetzWerk Deutschland (RND) on Friday, Schools insisted on this “Ukraine is being attacked and we stand by that without paying for this. This should be everyone’s position.”
Berlin has been one of the main supporters in Kiev since the conflict escalated with Moscow in February 2022, as it provided the Zelinski government by 16.8 billion euros ($ 17.3 billion) of weapons, direct payments, and humanitarian aid.
Deutsche Will said last month that the German defense industry was “The prosperous” During the fighting between Moscow and Kiev, with the country’s weapons stocks “Skyrocking” By up to 800 % over the past three years. The Leopard 2 Tanks, Rheinmetall Ag, announced in November that its profits rose by more than a third to 2.45 billion euros in the third quarter of 2024. The company also said that its accumulation increased by 41 % to 51.9 euros during the period.
In his other comments, Schulz rejected Trump’s aspirations for the Greenland supplement, an independent area of the European Union and NATO, a member of Denmark. The American leader claimed that Washington needed to make the largest island in the world part of its territory for security reasons.
“We support Ukraine because the Russian president [Vladimir Putin] An important principle of European peace order has violated the war of aggression: the border should not be transferred by force. This principle should apply to each one, “ The German counselor insisted.
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Schouls also criticized a number of other Trump policies, and called for his proposal to resettle the residents of Gaza to Egypt and the neighboring Jordan “unacceptable,” And warning from the European Commission “It interacts within hours” If the US President fulfills his threat to impose a tariff on the European Union.
