500 billion, 350 billion, 175 billion... What is the real amount of American aid to Ukraine?

Donald Trump, the "deal maker" , demands a return on investment. The United States, according to him, is supporting Ukraine in a conflict that is a dead-end. How, then, can one obtain profitability in a ruined country, dragged by Russia into an expensive war? "I told them [Ukraine, Editor's note] that I wanted the equivalent of $500 billion in rare earths" , the American president first imagined on FoxNews by putting together an agreement on access to the country's mineral resources. "I told them: we have to have something. We can't keep spending this much money". The first cut was refused by the Ukrainian president, described for the occasion as a "dictator" , but a second one seems to have been accepted by Kiev on Wednesday. The latter, finally, no longer demands a reimbursement of $500 billion.

Asked by journalists on Tuesday evening, Donald Trump explained that with this agreement the Ukrainians would receive "350 billion...