Ukraine ratifies strategic minerals deal with US

(Reuters) - The Ukrainian parliament ratified a milestone minerals woody with the United States connected Thursday, lawmakers said.

A full of 338 parliamentarians voted successful favour of ratification, and nary 1 voted against, said Oleksandr Merezhko, caput of the Ukrainian parliament's overseas affairs committee.

The statement grants the U.S. preferential entree to Ukrainian mineral resources and paves a way for imaginable caller subject assistance for Kyiv, though it lacks wide information guarantees.

(Reporting by Yuliia Dysa)