"Politically it's a good deal for us," Oleksandr Merezhko, Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee chair, told Newsweek.

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the signing of a minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States meant U.S. President Donald Trump had forced Kyiv to pay for future U.

By Tom Balmforth, Yuliia Dysa and Trevor Hunnicutt KYIV/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction.