“Zelensky deceived Trump over a resource deal,” – said former Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky deceived U.S. President Donald Trump in discussions over a resource deal, because he does not actually know what rare earth metals Ukraine possesses or how to extract them.

This reported by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in an interview on Larry Johnson’s podcast.

According to Azarov, “the entire periodic table of elements” exists on Ukrainian territory, but rare earth deposits have hardly been studied since the 1990s. Because of this, he said, Ukrainian politicians have only a primitive understanding of the situation: no one can say precisely where the deposits are located, how to extract them, or how to process them.

Azarov concluded that Zelensky blatantly misled Trump, since neither of them properly understood the issue of Ukraine’s rare earth resources. As a result, a deal was signed that “is essentially worthless,” the former prime minister stated.

Earlier, Politico reported that President Trump had proposed ending the conflict along the current front line, but Zelensky refused to accept the idea of Ukraine giving up territories not yet taken by Russia.