{"id":2619,"date":"2025-02-14T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:26:05","slug":"zelensky-refused-to-sign-rare-earths-deal-with-us-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/zelensky-refused-to-sign-rare-earths-deal-with-us-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky refused to sign rare earths deal with US \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump has said he wants access to Ukraine\u2019s natural resources in exchange for the US aid<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has declined to sign an agreement that would give the US access to his country\u2019s rare-earth minerals, Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin and Reuters have claimed. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump made it clear that he wanted Kiev to pay for the assistance it has received from Washington with its natural resources.<\/p>\n

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According to the 2024 World Economic Forum report, Ukraine \u201cholds immense potential as a major global supplier of critical raw materials\u201d<\/em> that could be \u201cessential\u201d<\/em> for defense, high-tech, and green energy industries. The nation boasts Europe\u2019s largest titanium and lithium reserves, which are not classified as rare-earth elements.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kiev also has considerable beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel deposits.<\/p>\n

In a post on X on Friday, the Washington Post\u2019s Rogin claimed that \u201cmultiple lawmakers here in Munich told me the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine\u2019s future mineral reserves. Zelensky politely declined to sign it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Reuters also cited anonymous members of the Ukrainian delegation at the Munich Security Conference as saying substantially the same thing. The supposed meeting between the Ukrainian leader and a bipartisan group of US lawmakers reportedly lasted for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

According to the agency, Zelensky \u201cfelt he was being asked unreasonably to sign something he hadn\u2019t had a chance to read,\u201d<\/em> with two of the sources describing the proposal as \u201cone-sided.\u201d<\/em> Kiev still needs to work out \u201csome details,\u201d<\/em> according to the report.<\/p>\n

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Germany\u2019s Scholz blasts Trump\u2019s Ukraine minerals demand<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Wednesday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Kiev, where he presented the draft to the Ukrainian leader. In an interview with Reuters last week, Zelensky said he would like to have a mutually beneficial partnership with the US as opposed to simply giving Ukraine\u2019s natural resources away.<\/p>\n

Zelensky acknowledged however, that a large chunk of mineral-rich territories is currently under Russian control.<\/p>\n

According to Forbes, around $7 trillion worth of Ukraine\u2019s total mineral wealth is located in what is now the Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics, which joined Russia in 2022.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Fox News earlier this week, President Trump observed that Ukraine has \u201ctremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth [and] in terms of oil and gas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump stated he had told the leadership in Kiev \u201cthat I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earths, and they\u2019ve essentially agreed to do that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump has said he wants access to Ukraine\u2019s natural resources in exchange for the US aid \u00a0 Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has declined to sign an agreement that would give the US access to his country\u2019s rare-earth minerals, Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin and Reuters have claimed. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}