The German press analyzes the content and the extensions of the broad economic cooperation agreement between US and Ukraine.

US and Ukraine have signed an agreement of economic cooperation, which provides on the one hand the creation of a joint investment fund to rebuild the country, on the other hand, access to Ukrainian natural resources for the US.

“According to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Yulia Svirindenko, the Joint Reconstruction Investment Fund will concern a fundraiser, oil and gas extraction project, as well as the relevant infrastructure,” Tagesschau writes.
“Investments will be exclusively in Ukrainian territory and in the first ten years there will be no distribution, but revenue of the fund’s revenue and profits. After this time the profits will be distributed between the partners.

The important thing for Ukraine is that the country will not have debts for the US military and financial assistance since the start of the Russian invasion. This has long been an important issue in the negotiations, because President Trump believed that the potential revenue from raw material mining would be compensated and a source of profit for the US in return for US support for Ukraine. After the deal, Trump stressed that the United States will take far more than they have invested so far, “the German media points out.

In addition, “according to Svirindenko, decisions on the Fund’s activities will be equitable. Ukraine will maintain the “complete control” of its territory, infrastructure and natural resources, as added by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Smihal.

Svirindenko emphasized, for her part, that “the transfer and development of technologies are an important part of the agreement because we need not only investment but also innovation”. At the same time, the agreement will not in any way affect Ukraine’s efforts to join the EU. Ukraine is also working with other states, such as Great Britain, France and Italy, in various projects to exploit important raw materials. The Ukrainian government estimates that the investment potential by 2033 will rise somewhere between 12 and $ 15 billion, “Tagesschau concludes.

‘President Trump needed a success’

“The US president needed a success,” the German journalistic network (RND) writes. “It has failed to implement the promise that it will end the Russian-Ukrainian war immediately. And now the deal enables him to present a deal. But exactly when investments will be made, as well as when dividends will be given to the US by the Fund still under planning, seems to be of secondary importance.

The question of the origin of investment money is still unanswered, unless they arise from taxation. Trump should provide investors attractive investment conditions – and they include a lasting peace in Ukraine. “

In addition, further investigations should be done to determine the total value of Ukraine’s natural resources. “This is why the scientific director of the Helmholtz Freiberg Institute for Resources Technology told the SRF Swiss station that Trump’s finding that the US will have revenue worth about 350 billion euros from the deal is rather” purely “.

‘The pressure on Putin’ is intensifying ‘

“This is a symbolic victory, which Trump urgently needed,” Zeit online agrees. However, the agreement is also for Ukraine “a diplomatic success. In the deal, of course, there is no talk of specific US security guarantees […] But the greatest danger, that is, withdrawing Trump from negotiations with Russia and leaving Ukraine to his fate, seems at present to have been avoided. “

Trump may also now present military aid to Ukraine “as an profitable investment” that “at least theoretically will bring money to the US. On the Ukrainian side, on the contrary, it is important that the agreement generally refers to weapons deliveries. ” And at the same time, this agreement is differentiated by the US negotiating position – because until now “Trump has been saying he could get better with the Russian dictator Putin than with Zelenski.”

“There are two important issues in which the US and Ukrainian government agree: the agreement on natural resources and the request for an unconditional ceasefire. Putin’s recent proposal for a three -day truce did not particularly like the US. US Foreign Minister Tami Bruce spokesman said on Tuesday that a “ceasefire is needed and not a three -day break, to have a reason for celebrations.” And Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kogg, described the Russian president’s proposal “irrational”. So, the pressure on Putin is intensifying to make concessions, “Zeit online.

“The Russian president rejects a greater ceasefire, fearing that his demands for NATO’s non -integration of Ukraine and recognition of occupied territories will not be able to fulfill after a truce […] That is why, so far, Putin is willing to talk directly with the Ukrainian president – but before a ceasefire and not after. “