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To spread: At a meeting in the White House, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelen...

Kyiv offered the US Agreement for 100 billion weapons for the sake of security guarantees - that it envisages

To spread: At a meeting in the White House, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky suggested US head Donald Trump an agreement for $ 100 billion to buy US weapons. Instead, Kyiv seeks to receive security guarantees from the United States after a peace agreement with the Kremlin. Kyiv and Washington also plan to conclude a $ 50 billion agreement to produce drones with Ukrainian companies. Financial Times told about the details of the agreement.

"Ukraine is promising to buy US weapons worth $ 100 billion, funded by Europe to obtain security guarantees from the United States after the peace agreement with Russia," the newspaper reads. Several people who were aware of this issue reported that Kiev has expressed such a proposal among other topics to discuss with European leaders on the eve of a meeting in the White House.

As for the part of the drone agreement, Kiev proposes to conclude with companies that have become "pioneers" in production since the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In addition, the document contains the point that Ukraine will disagree on any agreement, including Russia's territorial concessions, and insists on the ceasefire from the first step to a full peace agreement.

The document does not contain specific information about the purchase of which weapons in the US is referred to. However, it is mentioned the following: Patrioot air defense systems are needed to protect critical infrastructure, as well as to defense cities. It is worth noting that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed during a briefing, which was conducted after meeting in the White House, information on the US weapons agreement.

He noted that the package in particular will include planes and air defense systems. "A package of US weapons that we do not have, there are first of all planes, air defense systems, etc. There is a package with our offers for $ 90 billion," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Also, according to Financial Times, Kyiv requires complete compensation from Russia for a military manner. They can be paid at the expense of $ 300 billion of Russian assets that have been frozen in the Western countries.