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Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is open to offer United States access to rare minerals, even Russian occupied.
This occurs after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has repeatedly pressed to Ukraine to resign some of his minerals in exchange for support, In an agreement that is currently being completed, according to a Ukrainian minister.
In a state television interview on Monday, Putin said he was ready to “offer” resources to US partners in joint projects, including mining in the “new territories” of Russia, a reference to parts of eastern Ukraine that Russia that Russia that Russia He has occupied since he launched a full-invasion of scale three years ago.
The proposal could also see the two countries that collaborate in aluminum extraction and supply to the US. UU. To stabilize prices, he added.
In his televised interview, Putin responded to Trump’s impulse to access Ukraine mineral deposits, saying they were ready to work with “foreign partners”, including companies in mining minerals.
Putin said that a possible agreement between the United States and Ukraine in rare minerals was not a concern and that Russia “has no doubt, I want to emphasize, significantly more resources of this type than Ukraine.”
“As for the new territories, it is the same. We are ready to attract foreign partners to what new call, our historical territories, who have returned to the Russian Federation,” he added.
He also suggested that Russia and the United States could collaborate in the production of aluminum in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, where a Russian aluminum manufacturer, has its largest foundations.
The televised comments followed a cabinet meeting on Russia’s natural resources.
On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the proposal opened “quite broad perspectives,” and added that the United States needed rare earth minerals and Russia had “many of them.”
Offering United States access to minerals is a striking movement of Putin, given the pride that Kremlin has taken to maintain the natural wealth of Russia in Russian hands. In 2023, Putin accused the West, particularly the United States, of trying to “dismember” Russia to obtain access to its natural resources.
Putin’s intervention occurs when Ukraine has faced a growing pressure from the Trump administration to sign an agreement for access to its mineral deposits.
Kyiv estimates that approximately 5% of the world’s critical raw materials are in Ukraine. However, some of the mineral deposits have been seized by Russia in the three years since its invasion of Ukraine.
Trump said earlier this month that the military and economic aid of the United States to Ukraine amounted to around $ 500 billion (£ 396 billion), and wants the United States to have access to Ukrainian minerals of that value.
Zelenzky has played that figure and also says that he wants any agreement to include security guarantees.
On Monday, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Olga Stefanishyna, said that negotiations on such an agreement “have been very constructive, with almost all the key details completed.”
Similarly, although in a different approach to the United States, the European Union has also proposed an association with Ukraine that would give access to minerals in what the European commissioner for the industrial strategy, Stéphane Séjourné, called “Win -Win” .
