Putin provides us with Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is open to provide American access to rare minerals including Russian-Quiz Ukraine.
It has repeatedly pushed for Ukraine after US President Donald Trump to give up some of his minerals instead of support, According to a Ukrainian minister in a deal that is currently being finalized,
In a state TV interview on Monday, Putin said that he was ready to “offer” resources to American partners in Russia’s “new areas” in joint projects – American partners were ready to “offer” resources – one of parts of Eastern Ukraine References that Russia has captured since a complete launch- three years ago the Scale invasion.
He said that this proposal may supply both countries to the US to cooperate on aluminum extraction and to stabilize prices.
In his television interview, Putin, while fighting Trump’s push to reach Ukraine’s mineral deposits, said he was ready to work with “foreign partners” including companies on mining minerals.
Putin said that a potential American-uine deal on rare minerals was not a concern and Russia “undoubtedly, I want to emphasize more such resources than Ukraine”.
He said, “For new areas, this is the same. We are ready to draw foreign partners in the so -called new, our historical areas, which have returned to the Russian Federation,” he said.
He also suggested that Russia and the United States may collaborate on aluminum production in Crasnoysk in Siberia, where a Russian aluminum manufacturer, Russell, is the largest smelters.
Television comments followed a cabinet meeting on Russia’s natural resources.
On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters that the proposal opened “quite widespread possibilities”, saying that the US needed rare earth minerals and “many of them” in Russia.
Providing American access to minerals is an eye -catching move by Putin, given how pride the Kremlin to keep Russia’s natural property in Russian hands. In 2023, Putin accused the West, especially America, tried to “disintegrate” Russia to gain access to its natural resources.
Putin’s intervention comes when Ukraine is facing increasing pressure from the Trump administration to sign a deal for its mineral deposit.
Kiev estimates that about 5% of the world’s important raw materials are in Ukraine. However, some mineral deposits have been confiscated by Russia in three years since the invasion of Ukraine.
Trump said earlier this month that US military and financial assistance in Ukraine was approximately $ 500BN (£ 396BN), and he wants America to get access to Ukrainian minerals of that price.
Zelenzky has disputed that figure and is said to have included any deal safety guarantee.
On Monday, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Alantic integration, Olga Stephanisya said that such a deal has been “very creative, almost all major details have been finalized”.
Similarly – in a separate approach to the US – the European Union has also proposed a partnership with Ukraine that will provide it to minerals, which European Commissioner for European Industrial Strategy, Stephen Sejor, which “win -win” It is said.
