In agreement that would give the US rights to rare earth minerals in Ukraine believed to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars was almost sealed Friday night after President Trump and his special envoy’s good cop/bad cop approach to Kyiv appeared to break through a tense week of negotiations, sources familiar with the deal confirmed to The Post.

Retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, believed to be one of the few Trump administration officials still sympathetic to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, began his two-day trip back to the US without confirming a deal that the White House has pushed hard for — but which high-level officials in Zelensky’s government view as a shakedown.

“Any deal that can be made has to be mutually beneficial,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian president’s office insisted to The Post.

But shortly after, Trump announced at the White House that the US and Ukraine were “signing an agreement, hopefully in the next fairly short period of time.”

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