< Iframe Frameborder = "0" Scrolling = "No" Marginwidth = "0" Marginheight = "0" Hspace = "0" Vspace = "0" Webkitallowfulscreen = "True" mozallowfulllscreen = "alllow" = "Autoplay" RetrierPolicy = "No-Referrer-Ohen-Downgrade" Width = "500" Height = "300" style = "Width: 100%; Height: 100%; Position: Absolute;" Data-digiteka-src = "//www.ultimedia.com/deliver/generic/iframe/mdtk/01914874/src/xkz0pqz/zone/1/showtitle/1/sound/yes/"> ad > < P Class = "Article-Full__CoPo" >Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Friday 7 & nbsp; February 2025, discover the latest news around this conflict
< H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > loan to a “transaction” < P > leaning on a map detailing the vast deposits of rare land in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready to conclude a < EM > “deal” with Donald Trump Friday during an interview with < EM > Reuters , conscious of the American president's appetite for a transactional approach to diplomacy. < EM >“If we are talking about a 'deal', then do a 'deal', we are only there for that” , said the Ukrainian president, stressing the need for Ukraine d ' obtain in exchange for security guarantees. The administration of Donald Trump pushes in favor of a rapid war regulations between kyiv and Moscow, triggered by the large -scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops almost three years ago, February 24, 2022 . The Republican President asked Monday that Ukraine provides rare land and other precious metals in the United States to finance American military support.< P >This idea had been launched last fall by the Ukrainian president in his “victory plan” presented to kyiv's partners in order to place Ukraine in the best possible position for possible negotiations with Moscow. On Friday, in his highly protected office of the Ukrainian capital, Volodymyr Zelensky said that less than 20% of Ukraine mineral resources, including about half of its rare land deposits, were in territories occupied by Russia. These rare lands, a group of precious metals used in particular in the advanced technological industry, could be offered by Moscow to its North Korean or Iranian allies, warned the Ukrainian president.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000< P >< EM > “We must stop [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and protect what we have: a very rich region of Dnipro, Central Ukraine “, he said. In front of the journalists of < EM > Reuters , Volodymyr Zelensky has deployed a map showing many mineral deposits, including a wide strip of earth in the east containing rare earths. About half appeared to be on the Russian side of the front line. According to the Ukrainian president, Ukraine has the largest titanium reserves, an essential metal for the space and aeronautical industry, and Uranium in Europe. Russia knows these resources in detail, thanks to the geological studies carried out in the Soviet era. kyiv, however, underlined the Ukrainian head of state, does not count < EM > “Bader” these minerals, but propose a mutually beneficial partnership in order to develop them jointly. < EM > “The Americans help us the most, and should therefore earn the most. And they should have priority, and they will have it” , he said. In addition, added Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine and the White House discuss the idea of using the vast Ukrainian gas storage sites to store American liquefied natural gas. < EM > “I know that the Trump administration is very interested […]. We are ready to sign LNG supply contracts to Ukraine. And of course, we will be a 'hub' for the 'Set of Europe. “
< P > The Ukrainian President intends to participate in the Munich conference on security, which will take place from February 14 to 16 and where representatives of dozens of Western countries will meet. Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's emissary for Ukraine and Russia, is expected. Volodymyr Zelensky deemed crucial to meet Donald Trump in person before the latter saw Vladimir Putin. < EM >“Otherwise, it would look like a dialogue on Ukraine without Ukraine.” Donald Trump said on Friday that he intended to discuss with his Ukrainian counterpart next week. Volodymyr Zelensky said it was in contact every day with the advisers of the American president and with Keith Kellogg and the national security advisor Michael Waltz. < P >< EM > “We are talking about general things. For details, it will come later” , he added. Evoking the situation on the ground, while the Russian troops progress towards the strategic node of Pokrovsk in Donbass, Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian forces had launched a counterattack in the Russian region of Koursk on Thursday, advancing according to him 2.5 kilometers. < P Class = "Std-elt_inline" > < Strong > Read also: War in Ukraine: what is the new & quot; war of mines & quot; that the Ukrainians lead thanks to their drones ? < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > North Korean troops < P > Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that North Korean soldiers were fighting again alongside the Kremlin in the Russian border region of Koursk partly occupied by Ukraine, kyiv having previously announced that the soldiers of Pyongyang in had been removed because of heavy losses. < EM > “There have been new assaults in the operating zones of (the region of) Koursk, the Russian army and North Korean soldiers were Again involved “, said the Ukrainian president in his daily speech. He assured that a < em > “significant number” of Russian and North Korean soldiers had been < EM > “destroyed” . On January 31, kyiv said that the North Korean soldiers deployed in this area had been < EM > “removed” because of the losses. < P > The fights have been taking place in the region for more than six months, the Ukrainian army having launched there on August 6, 2024 a surprise offensive which allowed him to take hold of parts of Russian territory. If Russian forces have since taken over most of these territories, they still fail to repel Ukrainian troops beyond the border, despite the deployment, according to kyiv and its Western allies, of North Korean soldiers in support . Mr. Zelensky again argued on Friday that the operation in the Koursk region allowed there to fix it < EM > “60,000 Russian soldiers” and to relieve others Fronts. < P >However, this offensive has failed to contain the progress of the Kremlin forces in eastern Ukraine, where they have been progressing for more than a year against less numerous and lacking Ukrainian forces. Russia claimed on Friday, after months of fighting, the taking of the mining city of Totretsk, in the Donetsk region, a conquest which, if confirmed, would be of importance for the Russian troops. < P Class = "Std-elt_inline" > < Strong > Read also: War in Ukraine: a Trump Putin meeting in preparation, French mirages delivered to kyiv … The point on the situation < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > taking a mining city < P >Russia claimed the capture of the mining city of Totretsk on Friday, in eastern Ukraine, after months of fighting, an importance for Russian troops who pursue their progress on the front. < EM > “Offensive operations […] made it possible to release the city of Dzerjinsk” , indicated the Russian Defense Ministry, using the Russian name to designate TORETSK, city Now largely in ruins and which had some 30,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago. Totretsk was the target of Russian assaults since last summer. Journalists from < EM > AF P observed on the spot at the end of July 2024 a city ravaged by fighting, where some retirees were not able to or want to leave in their cellars , despite daily bombings. < P > The team of the < EM > AFP There had been swallowed with damaged or destroyed buildings strewn with the roads, doors and windows of smashed houses, calcined trees and electric posts folded by the breath of explosions. Ukraine has not confirmed at this stage the fall of Totretsk. His Ministry of Foreign Affairs simply published on X a photograph showing a snowy road leading to destroyed buildings. < EM > “TORETSK, Donetsk region. It was once someone's house. A place where people lived, laughed and built their future. Today, these are only ruins” , commented the ministry. < P > TORETSK once represented an important mining and industrial center of Donbass. Its taking facilitates operations to the neighboring city of Konstantinivka, which itself separates the Russian troops from their ultimate objective in the region, the big city of Kramatorsk. According to the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, Tarretsk's taking “will complicate the enemy's supplies to Tchassiv Iar and make the progress of the Ukrainian armed forces on the roads that connect Pokrovsk in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk”. Tchassiv Iar and Pokrovsk are two other Ukrainian Portes-Portes threatened by the progression of Russian troops, which face a Ukrainian army that lacks recruits and armaments and has been back for long months.