Ukraine and Trump officials say the United States is close to a deal from Ukraine’s minerals and other natural resources, including Titan, Lithium, oil, natural gas and unique land elements.
A draft agreement made by the New York Times described the establishment of a US managed fund, which received income from Ukraine’s natural resources. No security warranty offered.
What are the natural resources of Ukraine?
The largest country in Europe, Kiev, along with modest oil and natural gas reserves, manages more than 100 major deposits by the Kiev Economic School.
Ukraine has 20-year-old deposits of 20 minerals, including the US Geological Survey list critical to the economic development and protection of the United States:
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Titanium have Sunscreen, including construction, planes, orthopedic implants and paints and cosmetics, are used between many other things. According to the Ukrainian media, the central Ukrainian central Ukrainian mines in Ukraine are about 6 percent of global production.
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Lithium There are also some medications, including batteries, including electric vehicles and other industrial products. Ukraine has a third of Europe’s oversight, although some sites are in the leading areas of war. Before the war with Russia, Ukrainian officials invited Elon Musk to invest in Ukraine lithium mines.
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Uranium used in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons. Ukraine has the largest uranium reserves in Europe.
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Rare lands It is a group of more than Titan or Lithium, including in many high-tech sectors, including green energy, electronics and aerospace. Ukraine has significant reserves to prevent mainly in use, and it is not clear how expensive it will be.
What does Trump want?
Mr. Trump says that the United States has made a profit from minerals to Ukraine.
Ukraine can help violate a Chinese monopoly in rare land metals needed for mobile phones, other electronics and maybe future technologies.
“It is clear that Europe, Japan and the United States depend on everything for rare land elements,” said Serhy Vyzhva, director of the Institute of Geology at the National University of Taras, said in an interview.
Other ores, minerals and energy are less strategic, but still valuable. Ukraine oil and natural gas reserves can be a source of income for the managed fund in the United States provided for in the contract.
What does Ukraine want?
Ukraine wants Mr. Trump’s support in the war and the final peaceful conditions for Russia. The mineral will actually be extracted, not widely discussed with the Trump Office, but developing these sources is a long-term goal for Ukraine.
“Our geological base is like Canada and South Africa, which has extensive mineral resources of both.”
The country produces the most productive mine iron, titanium, manganese and zirconium, saying that Ukraine is “very interested in”, “The main focus remains at the end of the war.”
What are the barriers for a deal?
When Mr Zelensky’s latest autumn presents the idea of trade imagination for the military support of natural resources, the Ukrainian parliament said the country’s mineral wealth was worth the dollar “trillions”. According to him, this depends on the Bonanza’s “either Russia or allies or allies or a Ukrainian and democratic world.”
Resources are valuable, but experts say Mr. Zelenskin’s assessment is exaggerated. Cross bureaucracy and corruption have limited investment. According to a Soviet policy, for example, some reserves are classified as state secrets, prevent foreign citizens from education, and the Ukrainian business newspaper reported.
The Ukrainian government’s revenues from natural resources last year were less than $ 1 billion dollars, Mr. Trump said.
In 2023, the International Energy Agency thanked the Lithium to meet the global demand around the world now.
Currently, a lithium deposit occupied by Russia and several rare earth deposits are in Ukraine. Natural gas fields in some sea in the Black Sea are inaccessible while the battle continues; Some drilling platforms have become competable for both Russian and Ukrainian marine pedestrians.
American and other international oil companies also tried to work in Ukraine before.
In 2014, Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine, Ukraine, Chevron and Shaber cut the transactions with Shaber, owned by the country. The Shell’s project ended with a Russian resonance occupying territories near the website of the project in the Donetsk region. Chevron’s project was canceled due to geological problems.
