Trump says Ukraine minerals deal to be signed 'next Thursday' | AFP

US President Donald Trump says that a deal with Ukraine on extracting the war-wracked country's strategic minerals could be reached next week. Kyiv and Washington had been close to signing a deal until a February clash between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky temporarily derailed work on the agreement. "We have a minerals deal which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday... next Thursday. Soon. And I assume they're going to live up to the deal. So we'll see. But we have a deal on that," Trump tells reporters at the White House. SOUNDBITE

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