
Mapped: Where are Ukraine’s rare earth mineral resources and why does Trump want them?
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump wants Ukraine to pay for financial and military support by affording Washington access to the country’s vast but untapped rare earth minerals. "I told them that I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earths, and they’ve essentially agreed to do that.” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he is ready to do a deal with Mr Trump that includes U.S. involvement in developing Ukraine's huge deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals. A little over £6 trillion of Ukraine’s mineral resources, which is around 53 per cent of the country’s total, are contained in the four regions Mr Putin illegally annexed in September 2022, and of which his army occupies a considerable swathe. open image in gallery Donald Trump said Ukraine had ‘essentially agreed’’ to a rare earths deal The Crimean peninsula, illegally annexed and occupied by Mr Putin’s forces in 2014, also holds roughly £165 billion worth of minerals.
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