{"id":18836,"date":"2025-03-05T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=18836"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:12:38","slug":"trump-says-zelensky-ready-for-russia-talks-mineral-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-says-zelensky-ready-for-russia-talks-mineral-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Zelensky ready for Russia talks, mineral deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine&#8217;s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has told him Kyiv was ready for talks with Russia and finalization of a US minerals deal, days after a White House clash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads, &#8216;Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,'&#8221; Trump said in an address to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said, &#8216;My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump&#8217;s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence,&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky earlier Tuesday said he wanted to &#8220;make things right&#8221; with Trump after their jaw-dropping clash Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Oval Office, Vice President JD Vance accused Zelensky of being ungrateful for US assistance and Trump berated the wartime leader as not having &#8220;cards&#8221; to play.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky left without signing an agreement pushed by Trump for the United States to secure control over Ukrainian mineral resources.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration later said it was suspending all military assistance to Ukraine, which Russia invaded three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Congress, where many lawmakers of the rival Democratic Party wore US and Ukrainian flags on their lapel, Trump said, &#8220;Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate that he sent this letter. Just got it a little while ago,&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simultaneously, we&#8217;ve had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t that be beautiful?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine&#8217;s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has told him Kyiv was ready for talks with Russia and finalization of a US minerals deal, days after a White House clash. &#8220;I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads, &#8216;Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18838,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions\/18838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}