U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may be signing an agreement this Friday, per which Ukraine will give 50 percent of its rare earth mineral sales in exchange for past and continued military aid.
Meanwhile, Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez arrived in Kyiv for the third anniversary of the war and promised Ukraine €1 billion in military aid, reports Magyar Nemzet.
“Ukraine must win a just and lasting peace. The freedom, security and future of every European citizen depend on it. That is why I announced today in Kyiv that Spain is sending a new military aid package of one billion euros to the Ukrainian people. Diplomacy alone will not be enough. We must combine it with more strength and unity,” Sánchez wrote on X.
The military aid announced by the Spanish prime minister is part of a bilateral agreement signed last year between the Spanish and Ukrainian governments. Last year, Last year, Spain sent over €1 billion to aid for Ukraine’s defense.,as well as paying hundreds of millions of euros in funds that the EU has funneled to Ukraine.
Sánchez announced at the summit the opening of the “House of Ukraine” in the city of Torrevieja, in the province of Alicante, a center that will serve the various needs of the Ukrainian community in Spain. He also stressed the importance of Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
“Ukraine’s future lies in Europe, but Europe’s future also lies in Ukraine,” he said at Monday’s summit in Kyiv, which was chaired by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and attended by around 40 political leaders, including Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa, president of the European Council.
This was Pedro Sánchez’s fourth trip to Ukraine since the start of the war, writes Magyar Nemzet. Over the past three years, Madrid has consistently supported Kyiv both politically and economically.
The Spanish prime minister has continuously stressed Spain’s full support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and is convinced that only Ukraine can decide its own future, and therefore it must be given a place in the peace talks.
