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April 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the Treasury Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will work together...

Ukraine and the United States are now poised to sign a long-anticipated mineral resources deal after a last-minute sang delayed the signing on Wednesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a post on Telegram

The United States and Ukraine have signed an agreement over access to Ukraine’s natural resources, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The deal will provide the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources, including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas, Bloomberg reported.

Ukraine wants to sign a landmark minerals agreement with the US in Washington on Wednesday following months-long negotiations, Ukrainian officials said — but it wasn’t clear if the Trump administration was ready to ink the deal. Ukraine’s Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko is currently in DC to coordinate final details tied to the mineral resources agreement, according to two senior Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian Cabinet is expected to approve the agreement’s wording — which includes the main deal and at least two technical accords — ahead of the sit-down. There was no immediate word from the White House on whether the...

According to Reuters, the US told the Ukrainian side that the country would be "immediately shut off" from Starlink if Zelensky again rejected the mineral dealWASHINGTON, February 22. /TASS/. The United States is considering disconnecting Ukraine from the Starlink satellite communication system as one of the measures to pressure Kiev into concluding a deal on rare-earth minerals, Reuters reported, citing sources. According to its information, the issue of granting Ukraine further access to the system in connection with the conclusion of an agreement on minerals has already been raised by Washington in negotiations with Kiev after the refusal of Vladimir...

Donald Trump appears to have won his trade standoff with Volodymyr Zelensky, as the Ukrainian president is set to give in and sign a deal giving the U.S. access to deposits of critical minerals. The deal was seen as crucial for satisfying Washington's demands for a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia to end their three-year long war. Zelensky said on Friday that officials from his country and the U.S. were working on concluding an economic deal to ensure that the accord worked and was fair to Kyiv. 'We're signing an agreement, hopefully in the next fairly short period of...

China has banned the export of several strategically important minerals to the U.S., in response to the latest round of American restrictions Chinese chip-making industry. On Tuesday, the Chinese Commerce Ministry announced that it has banned the export of gallium, germanium, antimony and "superhard materials" to the U.S. The ban on the dual-use materials—those with civilian and military applications—comes alongside the implementation of "stricter end-user and end-use" reviews on graphite exports to the U.S. The announcement follows Washington's decision to strengthen export restrictions on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and software tools, and to expand the list of Chinese companies subject to...

China’s exports of two rare minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors fell to zero in August, a month after Beijing imposed curbs on sales overseas, citing national security. China produces about 80% of the world’s gallium and about 60% of germanium, according to the Critical Raw Materials Alliance, but it didn’t sell any of the elements on international markets last month, Chinese customs data released on Wednesday showed. In July, the country exported 5.15 metric tons of forged gallium products and 8.1 metric tons of forged germanium products. When asked about the lack of exports last month, He Yadong, a spokesperson...

President Trump ordered the U.S. military and the Interior Department to take immediate action to "break" the nation's dependence on Russian and Chinese supplies of critical minerals as a matter of national security. "This dependency of the United States on foreign sources creates a strategic vulnerability for both its economy and military to adverse foreign government action, natural disaster, and other events that can disrupt supply of these key minerals," read an executive order signed by the president on Wednesday.

With plenty of money to invest from the interest owed to it by the United States, China continues reaching out its tentacles to grab more natural resources from Africa.