Instead, it indicates that the US and Ukraine should develop state-owned resources in the war-torn country like minerals, oil, and gas together with revenues diverted to a joint US-Ukrainian fund.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to sign a deal with the US on the joint development of his country's mineral deposits at "any time and in any convenient format".

The United States and Ukraine are trying to hammer out a natural ... saying that agreeing to it would amount to “selling” his country. Trump subsequently called Zelensky “a dictator.” ...