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Eve Warburton, Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, and Director, Indonesia Institute, Australian National University

Why Zelensky – not Trump – may have ‘won’ the US-Ukraine minerals deal

Last week, the Trump administration signed a deal with Ukraine that gives it privileged access to Ukraine’s natural resources.

Some news outlets described the deal as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “caving” to US President Donald Trump’s demands.

But we see the agreement as the result of clever bargaining on the part of Ukraine’s war-time president.

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