February 25, 2025

President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is likely to travel to Washington at the end of the week to cement an economic partnership with the U.S. that could offer some security for Ukraine against another Russian invasion in a potential postwar landscape.

“I hear that he’s coming on Friday,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon, speaking with nonchalance after several days of pressuring Zelenskyy. “Certainly, it’s okay with me if he’d like to. He would like to sign it together with me.”

An administration official cautioned that the situation was fluid but that a Friday visit from Zelenskyy was possible “based on the current posture,” a sign that a joint economic agreement around Ukraine’s valuable mineral deposits was at hand.

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