MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Kiev is poised to engage in the country's customary redistribution of mineral deposit assets under the guise of "strategic necessity," aiming to grab and resell what has already been sold, opposition-minded Verkhovna Rada member Alexander Dubinsky has said.
"Now, we will witness the typical Ukrainian scheme in action - the act of taking back what has already been sold. Naturally, this will be justified by decisions from the National Security and Defense Council (SNBO). The official reason will be that a deal was made with the United States, but the underlying motive is the redistribution of assets, cloaked as 'strategic necessity.' The process is simple: first sell, then take back, and then sell again," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Dubinsky noted that President Vladimir Zelensky, on behalf of Daniil Getmantsev, the head of the Verkhovna Rada’s committee on finance, tax, and customs policy, has addressed US President Donald Trump with this offer: "You want access to subsoil resources? Go get them from Hunter Biden," who served on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, Ukraine's largest gas producer, from 2014 to 2019.
The Ukrainian legislator is curious how patient the United States will be in this situation.
"I can only imagine that at this moment, some White House staffer responsible for Ukrainian affairs spilled coffee on hearing this and exclaimed: 'What the hell is going on?'" he added.
On February 10, Getmantsev announced that he was working on a proposal addressed to the National Security and Defense Council to audit all mineral deposits and reclaim them for the public. He pointed out that over the past 30 years, all permits for commercially valuable deposits had been distributed to "respected" individuals.
Earlier, The New York Post reported that President Donald Trump intended to negotiate a $500-million deal with Ukraine to secure access to rare earth metals and gas in exchange for security guarantees as part of any potential peace settlement.