State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce says the minerals deal cements the US partnership with Ukraine but it's still up to the other two parties involved in the conflict to work out a ceasefire.
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00:00What we do know from this deal and what the president has said and what has been made clear now in this arrangement is that it cements a partnership, an economic partnership between the United States and Ukraine. And it is something that also speaks to the nature of how Ukraine will rebuild after this catastrophe. It is a terrific deal. I think that it is. And again, it's the U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. And it involves much more than just the critical minerals.
00:29What I think Ukraine understands and what we intend is that this is not just a financial arrangement. This is a bonding between two countries that will make a difference for a nation, certainly in Ukraine's situation where they have a friend and the rest of the world will notice that when you have a friend like the United States and when we are in business with you and in your nation, it creates a stronger national security for for everyone involved.
00:56And certainly in this case, when it comes to the profits that are generated, that that is then reinvested into Ukraine for the rebuilding dynamic that is going to obviously have to have to happen.
01:08The secretary has been clear that we are watching Putin's actions, right? Not his words. And in the process, he's he's refined a very specific timeline. Weeks ago, it was weeks. A few days ago, it was days that this would be a pivotal week. And look at that. It has been.
01:26I don't think we should look at the minerals deal as a statement about Russia. Or if you talk to Putin on the phone, it's not a statement about something else. Trump has been very clear about his mission. And that is how we should have we should look at through that that lens.
01:43And the secretary has also made it very clear that while our our style will change, the methodology of how we contribute to this will change in that we will not be the mediators.
01:54That is what I mentioned on Tuesday. And the nature of how this would change is we would not we certainly were still committed to it and will help and do what we can.
02:01But we are not going to fly around the world at the drop of a hat to mediate meetings that it is now between the two parties. And now now is the time that they need to present and develop concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end. It's going to be up to them.