Posted on 02/04/2025 3:02:35 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky called on US companies Tuesday to invest in his country’s rare earths after US President Donald Trump said he wanted a deal with Kyiv that involved getting the minerals in exchange for aid.
Trump said Monday that he would want strategic metals — essential for various technologies — in exchange for security from the United States.
Zelensky, who had floated the idea to the Republican last year, said it would be “fair” to give US companies access to the minerals as Washington has helped Kyiv fend off Russian forces. “I would like US business... to develop this field here,” Zelensky said, according to comments published by his office.
“We are open to the fact that all this can be developed with our partners, who are both helping us to protect our land and pushing the enemy back with their weapons, and sanctions packages — and this is absolutely fair.”
He called the idea an “important economic point” in his so-called “victory plan” for ending the three-year war with Russia.
The Ukrainian leader said he had discussed such an initiative when he met Trump on a trip to the United States last Autumn. “I told him that we are open to investments from American companies,” he said.
At the time Zelensky said the plan was meant to protect Ukraine’s natural resources. He also said that a visit by Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg was in preparation.
“We already have started working on the dates when the American team will arrive. We are now agreeing on the dates and the delegation, and we are waiting for the teams. We will work jointly,” he said.
In his evening address later Tuesday, Zelensky said his administration was already beginning “substantial talks” with Trump’s team.
Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeated the idea of sending more military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the country’s rare earth metals.
“We’re putting in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said. “They have great rare earth. And I want security of the rare earth, and they’re willing to do it.”
Trump’s remarks echoed US Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statement in Feb. 2024 suggesting that Kyiv pay off Washington’s loan with its vast mineral resources.
But what can Ukraine offer? What are rare earth elements?
There are 17 rare earth elements whose primary uses are in high-tech components.
The Ukrainian leader said he had discussed such an initiative when he met Trump on a trip to the United States last Autumn. “I told him that we are open to investments from American companies,” he said.
At the time Zelensky said the plan was meant to protect Ukraine’s natural resources. He also said that a visit by Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg was in preparation.
“We already have started working on the dates when the American team will arrive. We are now agreeing on the dates and the delegation, and we are waiting for the teams. We will work jointly,” he said.
In his evening address later Tuesday, Zelensky said his administration was already beginning “substantial talks” with Trump’s team.
Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeated the idea of sending more military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the country’s rare earth metals.
“We’re putting in hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said. “They have great rare earth. And I want security of the rare earth, and they’re willing to do it.”
Trump’s remarks echoed US Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statement in Feb. 2024 suggesting that Kyiv pay off Washington’s loan with its vast mineral resources.
But what can Ukraine offer?
WHAT ARE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS?
There are 17 rare earth elements whose primary uses are in high-tech components.
Though the report did not disclose the amount of scandium in Ukraine, it says that Ukraine has a vast reserve that, coupled with Ukraine’s ability to extract the element, could meet domestic demands whilst exporting it.
“The mineral resources of scandium in the bowels of Ukraine are among the largest in the world, and the available mining and processing facilities make it possible to fully meet the domestic needs of scandium and supply it for export,” it says.
Most REE deposits are in the Donbas. Some are near Vinnytsia, others north of Mikolayiv.
This is getting very interesting.
Praise the Praseodymium.
Ukraine’s biggest natural resource is coal, which is the country’s largest hydrocarbon fossil resource. Ukraine also has large reserves of iron ore, titanium, and natural gas.
Coal
Ukraine has the world’s sixth largest hard coal reserves
The majority of Ukraine’s coal is found in the Donbass region, the Lviv-Volyn Basin, and the Dnieper Basin
Ukraine’s coal reserves are expected to last for about 570 years
Most of Ukraine’s coal is used for domestic energy production
Other natural resources
Iron ore:
Ukraine has some of the world’s largest reserves of iron ore
Russia took over Ukraine’s iron ore deposits near Dniprorudne in 2022
Titanium:
Ukraine has some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium
Natural gas:
Ukraine may have the second largest natural gas deposits in Europe
Lithium:
Ukraine has fields of untapped lithium
Renewable energy:
Ukraine has significant biomass resources and waste management possibilities
The grifter assumes Ukraine will still be around for awhile. At best, at the conclusion of hostilities, they will be just another “ rump”, broke and busted third world nation.
I’d say we already bought these deposits a couple of times over.
It was RFK Jr. who said the war was about stuff like Ukraine’s mineral wealth.
How abouts we buy a bunch from you at market prices so you can spend that money on U.S. armaments that you failed to protect yourself with when you should have?
You can say that again. But think of the unnecessary bloodshed. That’s on Nuland et. al.
“The grifter assumes Ukraine will still be around for awhile. “
Speaking of grifters, how is Armstrong doing?
He looked really bad in his last videos.
The grifter dictator thinks he’ll still be around for a while.
“It was RFK Jr. who said the war was about stuff like Ukraine’s mineral wealth.”
Lots of people have said that.
Well, duh. No country wants Russian bandits and barbarians stealing their natural resources and destroying their cities.
The grifter assumes Ukraine will still be around for awhile. At best, at the conclusion of hostilities, they will be just another “ rump”, broke and busted third world nation.
You say the Final Solution to the Ukrainian Question is at hand? Excellent.
You mean Trump wants Ukraine to ahh, PAY for the aid we’re giving them? At least partially.
america has rare earthed minerals that we should be spending american money to invest in instead of ukraine...
america first!...
You have a really creepy stalker.
There is something seriously wrong with that individual.
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