00:00You don't have the cards. You're buried there. Your people are dying.
00:05It was a jaw-dropping showdown in the Oval Office.
00:08Old alliances crumbling as the world watched on.
00:12And yet last weekend, Trump and Zelensky communed again,
00:17seated a foot apart at the funeral of Pope Francis.
00:20Closing the gap, literally and politically, at last.
00:25The result, after months of negotiation and a last-minute snag, the signing of a deal,
00:32the U.S. securing preferential access to Ukraine's minerals,
00:36and, in turn, offering the country financial investment and a route to more military aid.
00:43Today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership
00:47that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process
00:51centred on a free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.
00:57It is those words, free and sovereign, that Ukrainians will focus on.
01:02The deal touted as a precursor to peace.
01:04Potentially the security guarantee that Zelensky has sought for so long.
01:09He has been looking to present this minerals deal as a success.
01:14And he can point to that as the way forward for the other promise he's made,
01:20which is to end the war.
01:21President Trump vowed to end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office.
01:27On his 101st day, he may have brought it closer than ever before.
01:32But Vladimir Putin is yet to show his hand.
01:36David Blevins, Sky News, in Washington.
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