Trump, Zelenskyy holds a summit in high issues in the middle of tensions on peace talks with Putin

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should meet on Friday at the White House after a war of peace negotiations and a brutal reversal of American politics towards Vladimir Putin and Russia.

While the war was approaching his three-year brand, Trump had described Zelenskyy as an election-free dictator and a “modestly successful actor” while being deferential in Putin, saying that the United States would negotiate the terms of an agreement with Russia.

This came after Zelenskyy said Trump lived in a “disinformation network” after a first cycle of talks on Tuesday between the U.S. and Kremlin officials in Saudi Arabia and Trump falsely suggesting that Ukraine had triggered war – instead of Russia.

The immediate activity to be accomplished – which could help determine the future of peace talks – is the signing of an agreement that would give the United States access to mineral resources of its Ukraine – an agreement that Trump has thrown a way to guarantee that American taxpayers are reimbursed to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.

“We will dig. We are going to dig, dig, dig. Dign, we must,” said Trump on Thursday, saying that the United States “would do substantial work” in Ukraine “taking the rare land, which we need in our country”.

“It will be great for Ukraine,” he said. “It’s like a huge economic development project. So it will be good for the two countries.”

Zelenskyy, on the other hand, spoke of the agreement in different terms – describing it as a way to reach an end: keep us in support.

Although the agreement would not provide full -fledged military security guarantees, according to Zelenskyy, is essential to a peace agreement, officials of the Trump administration declared that an American economic investment in the field in Ukraine could serve as a barrier for a new Russian invasion.

“I will meet President Trump,” the Ukrainian chief said on Wednesday. “For me, and for all of us in the world, it is crucial that America’s help is not stopped. The strength is essential on the path of peace.”

ABC News spoke to managers and analysts to break what is in the agreement, and what the agreement could mean for the future of Ukraine and the efforts to end the war after three exhausting years.

What – and is not – in the agreement

Familiar officials with negotiations claim that, in the words of the agreement, the United States and Ukraine will work together to find deposits of precious minerals and other natural Ukrainian resources.

Unlike the original proposal, this framework does not call kyiv to use the product of the sale of these resources to pay the 500 billion US dollars – which the Trump administration previously described as “recovery” for the 183 billion dollars spent in response to the invasion of Russia, according to the Special American Inspector in charge of the survival of Ukrainian aid.

Instead, the agreement aims to create an investment fund for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine which will belong jointly to the two countries, they say, and that additional negotiations on the control of this fund and its operation will take place after initial cement.

Other factors will depend on the free market.

“The profitability of the fund depends entirely on the success of new investments in Ukraine’s resources,” said Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical mineral security program at the Center for Strategic Studies and Meredith Schwartz, research partner in the same program.

“Consequently, the response of the private industry is the key to the success of the fund and will determine the value of the value that the United States finally draws,” they added.

But officials say that the Ukrainians also made concessions. The officials say that Kyiv initially wanted the terms of the agreement to include concrete security guarantees for Ukraine – which the current framework is lacking.

“However, the idea is that with US-Ukraine joint investments in the country’s resources, the United States will continue to participate in the sustainable security, stability and peace of Ukraine and therefore encourage to maintain and defend Ukrainian security,” said Baskaran and Schwartz.

If it is a success, Baskaran and Schwartz say that the United States can increase its mineral security – but that the results could take decades to materialize.

“Mining is a long-term effort-the United States may therefore not produce services for another 20 years,” they said.

Trump himself recognized uncertainty.

“You know, you dig and maybe things are not there as if you were thinking of being there,” he said on Thursday.

A different air from Trump

After having repeatedly denounced Zelenskyy in recent days, Trump has softened his tone on Thursday.

When he was asked if he still believed that Zelenskyy was a dictator – an assertion he had made a little more than a week ago – Trump replied, “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that” before suddenly passing the following questioner.

Later in the day, Trump also praised the value of the fighters of Zelenskyy and Ukrainian on the battlefield.

“We have given him a lot of equipment and a lot of money, but they fought very courageously. No matter how you think, they really fought,” he said. “Someone has to use this equipment. And they were very courageous in this direction.”

Ukrainian officials who urged Zelenskyy to accept the mineral pact are likely to consider this reversal as a positive evidence for their main argument – that the signing of the Trump agreement will increase the links between the Trump administration and kyiv, while reducing negotiations would more open the vision of the president of Zelenskyy.

But if a bonhomie will last is not clear.

“Critical access to mineral resources is the last arena for Trump to concentrate his transactional diplomacy methods,” said Baskaran and Schwartz. “But the viability of the agreement remains to be considered as tensions continue to increase between the two world leaders.”

Trump is not known for his patience, and some American officials provide slow results of the agreement could let Trump frustrated.

Or, if the two compete at their meeting of the White House with high issues, the president could again become again towards Zelenskyy, even earlier when Trump is likely to carry out potential advantages that the mineral agreement holds for the United States and the Ukrainian chief is likely to put pressure for additional American security guarantees.

But the president only shared positive predictions on the eve of the meeting.

“I think we are going to have a very good meeting,” he said. “We are going to hear very well. Okay. We have a lot of respect. I have a lot of respect for him.”

John E. Herbst, principal director of the Eurasia Center for the Atlantic Council and former American ambassador to Ukraine, argues that the meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump takes place is a good sign for Ukraine.

“Zelenskyy’s visit, how far he came from two weeks when Trump spoke of seeing Putin up to three times in the near future, or even last week, when senior Russian and American officials met in Riyadh,” he said. “However, now it’s Zelenskyy, not Putin, in the oval office.”

Other negotiations

While a large part of the public objective has moved to negotiations on the mineral agreement in recent weeks, the talks have finally aimed to end the war in Ukraine which has quietly continued on a separate track.

On Thursday, American and Russian officials met in Istanbul for more than six hours to discuss growing staff in their respective embassies in Moscow and Washington – a secretary of moving state, Marco Rubio, previously declared essential to promote the potential cooperation of areas between countries, including the resolution of the war in Ukraine.

Team managers have reported a favorable result from Reunion and predict that a wider diplomatic imprint could create momentum for peace talks and a potential summit between Trump and Russian chief Vladimir Putin.

As a choir of European leaders, tried to encourage Trump to include American security guarantees in Ukraine to enforce a truce with Russia, the president continued to say that he has confidence in Putin to hold on.

“I have known him for a long time now,” said Trump. “I don’t think he’s going to violate his word. I don’t think he will be back. When we conclude an agreement, I think the agreement will take.

But before his meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he added a potentially important warning.

“You know, look, it’s, trust and check, let’s call it,” he said.

Clifford D. May, founder and president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, argues that it is imperative that the president is clearly in the eyes in his relations with Putin.

“While President Trump is trying to negotiate the Russian war against Ukraine, it is not unreasonable for him to be respect for Mr. Putin (as he was) if he believes that this will make Mr. Putin more likely to accept concessions,” he said.

“But it is imperative that President Trump does not derogate from any illusion about Mr. Putin – on his character, his ambitions, his ideology and his permanent hatred for American greatness,” added May.