Seven takeaways from Ukraine minerals deal

What this will and won't change for US assistance to Ukraine, three years into the war.

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Months in the making, it sets up an investment fund that Ukraine hopes will cement US assistance as the country struggles to repel Russia three years after the invasion.

The Ukrainians have now published the deal and there have been public statements from both sides. Here are seven key takeaways.

Trump has previously demanded that Ukraine pay back the $350bn (£264bn) of aid that he claims has been provided by the US during the war - a condition that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected.

But Washington appears to have made a concession. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the agreement did not dictate that his country pay back any supposed "debt".

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