CNN
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says a draft deal with the US on resources is a “framework” whose success depends on Donald Trump as it emerged the text, a draft of which was obtained by CNN, stops well short of providing Kyiv explicit security guarantees.
With Trump bent on bringing Russia’s war to a swift end and recouping some of Washington’s financial aid to Kyiv, Zelensky is hoping that the natural resources deal can secure the US president’s future support, as well as security guarantees for Ukraine.
But the final version of the text seen by CNN said only that the United States “supports Ukraine’s efforts to obtain security…
