{"id":69527,"date":"2025-02-17T23:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/17\/what-are-ukraines-critical-minerals-and-why-does-trump-want-them"},"modified":"2025-02-26T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:15:34","slug":"what-are-ukraines-critical-minerals-and-why-does-trump-want-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69527","title":{"rendered":"What is the Ukraine minerals deal \u2013 and why does Trump want it signed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelenskyy is likely to visit the US this week to sign a deal on Ukraine\u2019s rare earth minerals, according to Trump<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears likely to visit the White House<\/a> on Friday to sign a critical minerals deal, Donald Trump has said, after Ukraine\u2019s president rebuffed initial attempts by the US to gain access to his country\u2019s resources as a down payment for continued military and economic aid.<\/p>\n

The announcement followed days of tense negotiations between the US and Ukraine<\/a> in which Zelenskyy alleged the US was pressuring him to sign a deal worth more than $500bn that would force \u201c10 generations\u201d of Ukrainians to pay it back. He also said it did not contain the security provisions<\/a> Kyiv needed.<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy is likely to visit the US this week to sign a deal on Ukraine\u2019s rare earth minerals, according to TrumpVolodymyr Zelenskyy appears likely to visit the White House on Friday to sign a critical minerals deal, Donald Trump has said, after Ukrain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,666,415,221,1175,930,47,3168,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-commodities","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-manufacturing-sector","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-volodymyr-zelenskyy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69711,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527\/revisions\/69711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}