US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine includes restoring Russian energy flows to Europe, major US investments in Russia's rare earth sector and the use of frozen Russian assets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper reports that Trump's plans are described in detail in proposals that have been given to Europeans in recent weeks.
Among the US president's plans are for US financial firms, as well as other businesses, to tap $200 billion in frozen Russian state assets for projects in Ukraine, including the creation of a large new data center powered by the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which is now controlled by Russian forces.
Moreover, American companies are expected to invest in strategically important sectors in Russia, such as rare earth mining and oil drilling in the Arctic, according to the newspaper, which adds that the flow of Russian energy to Western Europe and the rest of the world will also be restored.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an unnamed European official compared the proposed US-Russian energy deal to an economic version of the 1945 Yalta conference.
At that conference the victors of World War II—the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain—divided their spheres of influence in Europe.
Source: protothema.gr
