Trump plans envision major U.S. investment in Russia, restoring oil flows to Europe: Report
The newspaper said the plans were detailed in annexes to peace proposals submitted to European counterparts in recent weeks.
These include a plan by US financial firms and other businesses to tap $200 billion in frozen Russian state assets for projects in Ukraine, including a major new data center powered by the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is now controlled by Russian forces, the newspaper said.
He added that US companies will invest in Russia’s strategic sectors, such as rare earth mining and oil drilling in the Arctic, and that Russia’s energy flow to Western Europe and the world will be restored.
The newspaper said an unidentified European official compared the proposed US-Russia energy agreements to an economic version of the 1945 Yalta conference.
At that meeting, the victors of the Second World War, the Soviet Union, the USA and the UK, divided their interests in Europe.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops in Donbas, which consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
