In March 2025, information appeared on the Web that a page dedicated to a ten -year bilateral security agreement between Ukraine and the USA was deleted from the White House website. We checked the reliability of such publications.
On March 6, Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels began to distribute the news: a security agreement signed by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and former US President Joe Biden in June 2024, allegedly removed from the White House website a few weeks after the inauguration of the new head of state Donald Trump. This was reported, for example, Lenta.ru, "Gazeta.ru" And "Arguments and facts"As well as Telegram channels"NE.SAHAR"(233,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Solovyov"(220,000),"Newsach / Dv"(216 000),"RT in Russian"(200,000),"Politics of the country"(99 500) and others. Many bloggers interpreted the disappearance of the contract from the site as cancellation of guarantees, recorded in the document. Others-for example, Telegram channel "KB. Economy"(96,000 views) - say the opposite:" The paper did not contain any guarantees at all and was called only to raise the fighting spirit of the Ukrainians so that they continue to support Zelensky. "
The news of the disappearance of the agreement from the official website of the US president appeared against the background breakdown negotiations of Kyiv and Washington on minerals and security guarantees. On February 28, Zelensky arrived at the White House to discuss these issues, but the meeting grew into a public skirmish with Trump and US Vice President Jay Di Wanses. As a result, negotiations were disrupted, the Ukrainian leader left the Oval office ahead of schedule, and the world's largest publications Wrote About one of the largest diplomatic disasters in recent history.
The agreement in question in viral posts, Zelensky and Biden signed June 13, 2024. According to the document, the United States undertakes for ten years to maintain the efforts of Ukraine to strengthen its defense and Euro-Atlantic integration, as well as develop the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. Then the text of the contract was published On the website of the White House of the United States, but after Trump returning to the presidency, the page really She became inaccessible.
By data different Telegram channels, the first messages about the disappearance of the document from the White House website appeared either in Ukrainian or in the Western media. The earliest such publication that managed to find “verified” appeared on March 6 at 02:23 Moscow time in the Ukrainian Russian-speaking Telegram channel "Torredo". “Now America can sign any agreements, give any promises, guarantees and support, and then just remove it from the site and say:“ There was no such agreement. Fake News !!! ”,” the blogger wrote.
Judging by the copy of the page that has been published in the Internet Archive, where the text of the contract was published, the link to it was active January 18however already February 1 stopped functioning. Trump's inauguration took place January 20.
However, together with the US-Ukrainian security agreement, the section itself disappeared ”Statements and releases", In which documents signed by Biden were published as president. However, this does not mean their cancellation. The fact is that when the new US president takes office, the Whitehouse.gov domain Crosses In the maintenance of his administration, which changes the design of the site and begin to fill it with the content of the current head of state. This can be checked, for example, looking into the section "News": The earliest publication there dates from January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration.
Documents related to Biden's activities as president were transferred to the site bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov. U US National Archive There is a list of the same resources where you can find copies of the sites of previous administrations: Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump in his first time.
As for the ten -year security agreement between the United States and Ukraine, its text is still available on the site State Department And US Congressas well as in Archive website of the Biden administration. At the time of writing this analysis on the official resources of the American government, there were no applications for the abolition of this document.
Thus, the text of the cooperation agreement in the field of security between the United States and Ukraine disappeared from the White House website along with all other materials issued during the reign of the ex-president of Biden. This is a normal practice when changing American presidents: the website of the outgoing administration is archivated and transferred to a separate domain, and the permit is beginning to fill the portal again. In this regard, to draw conclusions that certain documents have lost their legal force, unreasonably.
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