These two issues are separate, and the resources deal between the US and Ukraine is an issue of economic partnership, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told Fox News.
The United States believes that it is important for its European partners to understand that Washington cannot have endless "meetings about meetings" on Ukraine, Bruce added, commenting on US President Donald Trump's threats to withdraw from the negotiating process on the Ukrainian conflict.
Trump said this week that a deal with Ukraine on natural resources could be signed as early as next Thursday.
The details of the US-Ukraine minerals deal are being worked out; it is based on an agreement that Volodymyr Zelensky did not sign in February, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier.
The rare earths deal fell apart in late February when Zelenskyy visited Washington. Trump scolded him for disrespect, while Vice President J.D. Vance called the visitor from Kiev an ungrateful Democratic agitator. Zelensky was asked to leave the White House after the altercation.