Ukraine also has Europe’s largest uranium reserves, crucial for nuclear power and weapons. It boasts significant deposits of ...

The quantity and value of Ukraine’s rare earth elements remain unclear, partly because up-to-date geological surveys need to be carried out. Mineral maps for Ukraine date to the Soviet era and are not ...

The U.S. and Ukraine are close to signing a deal that could give the U.S. substantial control over the smaller country’s mineral resources—something President Donald Trump has pushed for. Details of ...

More than 50 per cent of Ukraine’s critical rare earth mineral resources are in regions illegally annexed by Vladimir Putin ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

Only 12 days ago in Kyiv, in an interview with two Reuters correspondents, he unrolled in his office a once-classified mineral map of Ukraine. Poring over the map, he said: “If we are talking about a ...

The map above, based on the most recent data ... recently wrote that Ukraine's mineral resources "are not only pivotal to Ukraine's sovereignty but also to Europe's energy independence and the ...

Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in negotiations with the U.S. over a ceasefire agreement in the war with Russia. There’s ...

The maps date back to when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union ... and that is something that the deal does not guarantee.” Some of the mineral riches lie in parts of the country currently occupied ...

President Donald Trump says the United States and Ukraine are poised to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals “and other things” — or at least they were before a heated moment between him ...