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President Donald Trump, center right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center left, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated from second right, and Vice President JD Vance listen at the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov, File)

From Oval Office blowout to landmark minerals deal, how Ukraine’s diplomacy unfolded

The road to the U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement was paved with challenges. Those included an unprecedented Oval Office blowout, hundreds of revisions, mutual recriminations and a breakthrough moment on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral.

Municipal workers clean up around burnt cars in the residential area following Russia's drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russia and Ukraine clash over ceasefire proposals as fighting rages

In this combination of file photos, President Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, are seen at the Elysee Palace, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris, and President Vladimir Putin, right, addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, left and center, Pavel Bednyakov, right, File)

A US-led effort to end the war in Ukraine looks favorable to Russia, but mixed signals emerge

Emergency personnel work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

At least 9 dead in drone strikes after US and Ukraine sign minerals deal

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Ukrainian officials say Kyiv is ready to sign a much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US on Wednesday

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth

Alyona Zavadska, 16, cries near the coffin of her boyfriend Danylo Khudia, 17, killed in a Russian strike along with his parents, Viktoria and Oleh Khudia on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

A young couple in Ukraine delighted in first love. Then the war came for them

A priest conducts a funeral service of teenager Danylo Khudia, and his parents Viktoria and Oleh Khudia, killed in a Russian strike on a residential neighbourhood on April 24, during a farewell ceremony at the crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine says Russia hits civilians again as Kyiv derides Putin’s 3-day truce offer

In this photo provided by Ukraine's 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a soldier looks out of a shelter on the anti-drone firing position in Kostyantynivka, the site of the heavy battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP).

If Trump abandons Ukraine, can Europe help Kyiv fight on? The clock is ticking to answer that

Honour guard soldiers pack caps after a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russia declares a 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine for next week to mark Victory Day in World War II

A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

What to know about the battle for Russia’s Kursk region

Security personnel work the scene where Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the General Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

A Russian general was killed by a car bomb just outside Moscow

President Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

‘Vladimir, STOP!': Trump makes an all-caps callout but will Putin hear it?

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein))

In rare rebuke of Putin, Trump urges Russia to ‘STOP!’ after deadly attack on Kyiv

In rare criticism of Putin, Trump urges Russian president to “STOP!” after deadly attack on Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the overnight attack on Kyiv by Russia was ‘one of the most outrageous’

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he is cutting short his trip to South Africa and returning home after Russia strikes Kyiv

An injured woman sits near her house, which was damaged by a Russian airstrike, in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

AP PHOTOS: Kyiv pummeled by deadly Russian drone and missile strikes

Ukrainian search personnel clear the rubble after a Russian ballistic missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russian strike on Kyiv kills at least 12 in biggest attack on Ukrainian capital since last summer

Ukrainian emergency services say 9 people were killed and 63 injured in massive Russian air attack on Kyiv

In this photo, provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish fire following a Russian attack in Dnipro, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

Russia strikes Ukrainian city of Dnipro as Kyiv seeks security pledges in Paris

Friends come to pay last respects to the family, Maksym Martynenko, 11, Natalia Martynenko, 49, and Mykola Martynenko, 41, killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy on April 13, during farewell ceremony in Sumy, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kherson kill 1 person and wound 9

This image taken from video that European military officials say was filmed by a Ukrainian drone in the southern Ukrainian village of Piatykhatky on March 13, 2025, shows a soldier, center, identified as Russian, pointing his gun at a Ukrainian soldier who appears to be surrendering after emerging from the ruins of a house to join other Ukrainian prisoners on the ground. (Ukraine Military/European Defense Officials via AP)

A video shows men identified as Russian troops holding Ukrainian POWs. Then the killing begins

A view of an ilmenite open pit mine in a canyon in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine will send a team to the US next week for talks on a new draft mineral deal

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

1 killed in Russian attack on Kyiv as death toll from earlier missile strike rises to 20

Rescue workers work on a site after Russian rocket strike on residential neighbourhood killing civilians including children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 4, 2025. (Na Chasi media via AP)

Zelenskyy meets European military leaders to plan for a peacekeeping force

Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih has killed 12 people, including two children

Ukrainian servicemen fix a bomb on a Vampire attack drone, on the front line near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, March 31, 2025, (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Germany sees Ukraine truce efforts as deadlocked, while China says the talks are encouraging

In this provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen of 3rd mechanized battalion, practice on the training ground at an undisclosed location in the east of Ukraine, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Ukrainians expect Russia to launch a fresh offensive to strengthen its negotiating position

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Sergei Ilyin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin suggests putting Ukraine under UN-sponsored external governance

A woman with the words "Free Azov" written on her face attends a rally aiming to raise awareness on the fate of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Captured Ukrainians convicted on terrorism charges by Russia in what Kyiv called a sham trial

Russia convicts 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges in a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

US says it brokered deal to end fighting in the Black Sea in talks with Ukraine and Russia