India, Feb. 28 -- US President Donald Trump will host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House and sign a deal granting Washington access to Ukraine's rare minerals, week after dubbing his Ukrainian counterpart a "dictator".

The deal would see the United States jointly develop Ukraine's mineral wealth, with revenues going to a newly created fund that would be "joint for Ukraine and America", a senior Ukrainian source told AFP.According to an AP report, Zelenskyy's delegation is expected to sign a landmark economic agreement with the US aimed at financing the reconstruction of war-damaged Ukraine, a deal that would closely tie the two countries together for years to come.

Trump changed years of American policy regarding Ukraine two weeks ag...