London – The search for Donald Trump to Ukrainian mineral resources has been transatlantic links in recent weeks, whites in Europe’s allies and Ukrainian partners promoted future profits.
The agreement referred to on Tuesday Trump “It is very great,” one said one will “military equipment and fighting”.
Several estimates suggest that hundreds of millions may be, perhaps millions of trilions – because there can be rare land minerals in Ukraine soil. These include important deposits of lithium, titanium, copper, nickel, cobalt, graphite and uranium.
Vladimir Putin Russia’s Russian scale in 2022, Ukrainian environmental protection and natural resources Svetlana Grinchuk said about 5% of the world’s critical raw materials “.
Donald Trump President of Washington, 2025, 2025, president of Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian President.
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However, there is a quiet information about the hedrality and accessibility of mineral resources of Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, it is not a modern evaluation” Ukrainian Roman opimakh, former director of the Roman Opimakh – Geological Survey of Ukraine – said s& P Global raw material instructions this month. “And this information is still a reduction to become public”. The current estimates are based on Soviet maps and exploration methods.
In fact, the Ukrainian State Geology and the Underground Web Service section of the country’s potential reserve details are not available. “According to legal requirements, open access to this section of the Site is limited to the Martial Law Crash,” A message is read.
The resources there are not necessarily easy to reach, strategic studies at Gracelin Baskaran and Meredith Schwartz and international international studies.
Trump’s economic returns “are unlikely to consider the barriers of investment in the medium term,” they write.
The war has removed the “key” mining infrastructure, as well as the skills to create the power to feed the intensive mining projects. “The construction of energy infrastructure should be important for” Mineral Exploration or Production, “the authors said.
The development of a single mine can cost $ 4 million, the General Manager of Oleksandr Vodoviz – Metinvest Group General Manager – said. Development of the Cokrovsk location workshop in the Cokrovsk Cokrovsk in Pokrovsk in Ukravak – It should take about $ 10 Billion.
Sustainable security risks can also prevent the investment required. “Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy get to a peace agreement, the threat of conflict and land expropriation will give a long-end nature of the conflict,” said Baskaran and Schwartz.
The geographical expansion of Ukrainian minerals complicates security picture. Numerous concentrations of the most valuable resources are located in the east of the country, currently in the line of Russian forces and the front line, in the Russian weapons.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, aware of the global attractiveness of Ukrainian natural resources, mentioned the “victory plan” in October 2024.
A woman has a cycle with the dog Bucket-Wheel Excavators Mine rare ground materials in the Ukrainian Zhytomyr region.
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The fourth of his five points stated that natural resources in Ukraine “our choice” and offered investment opportunities for its strategic partners in this field. This point also had a secret attachment, shared only with named partners.
The US is willing to carry the position of foreign investment. A higher Ukrainian official said Abc news told them on Tuesday, agreed on the terms of the agreement proposed by both sides.
Trump did not confirm that the US agreed, Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard Washington, the president of Ukraine in Washington, who will visit DC. “It would be okay with me,” Trump said.
The president has had minerals, as a means of recovery of American Wartime in Ukraine, proclaiming – without providing evidence – USA has contributed $ 350 million for three years.
The agreement envisages the creation of the Common Reconstruction Fund in the USA-Ukraine, through which resources may be and develop.
The Sources of the Ukrainian government told ABC news Latest version According to the agreement, it is not an initial demand for access request for $ 500 million, nor the opening position of the US investment fund that would own the investment fund.
It also seems that agreements do not cover resources that help Ukrainian budget; This does not have oil and gas, or the majority of the country’s mineral resources.
Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of the European Foreign Relations Council, BBC News said the mineral agreement seems like a “side” and mostly “Keep Mr. Trump”.
“But it won’t give a lot of money in the US, and I don’t see any economic impact on many years of economic influence,” Bildte said.
Ukraine requires security guarantees as part of the agreement, although ABC News does not understand that this provision is part of the draft agreement. Zelenskyy and Trump will be discussed when the former travels in Washington, when it travels to DC.
ABC News’ Gretsky has helped this report.
