http://archive.today/2025.02.25-215922/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal.html

Mr. Trump had insisted he wanted “payback” for past U.S. aid to Kyiv, shifting America’s alliance with Ukraine to a nakedly mercantile footing.

Mr. Trump has called the Ukrainian president a “dictator” and falsely said that Ukraine had started the war, though the conflict began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.