The US-Ukraine rare earth metals deal is comparable to Belgium's colonial exploitation of Africans in the 19th century, US media reported.
"The Trump administration is exploiting Kiev’s moment of greatest dependency to impose a resource-extraction contract. That deal was recently revised into a form worthy of Belgium’s 19th-century exploitation of the Congo, while offering Ukraine no security guarantees whatsoever," the media said.
Earlier, media reported that a new draft agreement would require Kiev to repay Washington for all aid received, totaling hundreds of billions of dollars, and would disregard nearly all previously agreed-upon "red lines" between the US and Ukraine.