The first high official of the Trump administration should have visited Ukraine, one day after Russia released an American prisoner in a development that President Trump has defined a positive sign for the fire interviews.
The journey of the Treasury Secretary Scott Besent comes in the middle of Kiev anxiety and among the American allies on the fact that the support of the United States for the Ukrainian war effort will now be maintained that Mr. Trump has returned to the White House.
The Trump administration has already sought an agreement for the United States to guarantee the rights to Ukrainian natural resources, including the minerals of rare lands, as a guarantee for further American assistance.
Tuesday Trump declared in a post on Truth Social that Mr. Bessent was sending in Ukraine because “this war must and will soon end – too much death and destruction”.
Trump, who made American spending in a variety of areas a focus of the first days of his new administration, also wrote that the visit would touch American assistance to Ukraine. The United States wrote, had spent billions of dollars “with too little to show” for this.
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky president said he welcomed Mr. Beesent’s visit. “We are already prepared for meetings with the United States representatives – The negotiations will soon begin,” said Zelensky in his evening speech to the Ukrainians Tuesday.
The attention of Mr. Trump on the guarantee of mining rights was reflected in the choice of Mr. Beesent to make the first high -level visit, rather than senior safety or a military official to discuss the war.
Hours after Mr. Trump announced the visit, Russia launched a missile attack on Ukraine which included a shot on the flight of ballistic missiles fired in Kiev, the capital.
The missile strike, which took place shortly before 5 in the morning, killed a person and wounded four more, including a 9 -year -old girl, according to the administration of the city of Kiev. It was not clear if Mr. Beesent was in Kiev at that moment.
Falling debris from the interceptions by the air defense missiles on Kyiv passed off debris that caused fires in the buildings in four districts and the explosions echoed through the capital for several minutes.
The missile shot in Ukraine has also arrived hours after Russia released an American prisoner, Marc Fogel, in what Trump said he hoped that he would be an initial step to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Zelensky, in an X post, also expressed support for the end of the war. “This Russian terror against Ukraine will not stop alone,” he wrote. “At this moment, we need the unity and support of all our partners in the struggle for an end of this war.”
Overall, Russia shot six ballistic missiles and 123 drones that explode in Ukraine during the night, after a period of almost a month in which Russia has widely abstained by the use of ballistic missiles. The fights also continued along the first line line in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces continued to assault.
The Ukrainian army reported that 149 aerial bombs were eliminated by airplanes and over 2,000 short -range drones have been shot in the front line positions.
In another missile attack on Ukraine, Tuesday, Russia has affected the main region of production of the country’s natural gas, Poltava, continuing the attacks on the country’s energy infrastructures.
In addition to Ukraine, the Polish soldiers reported Tuesday that a Russian military plane entered briefly in her airspace, although the military said she was in contact with its Russian counterparts. The error was attributed to a problem with the plan for navigation of the plan.