A primer on the critical resources and billions of dollars at stake in a potential deal between Ukraine and the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Ukraine holds trillions of dollars worth of rare earth elements, which are critical for the modern high-tech economy.

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

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 ...

Ukraine has agreed to the framework of a mineral-rights deal with the U.S ... infrastructure and even up-to-date maps of the deposits were major obstacles to large new commercial projects in ...

President Trump had suggested that the U.S. need not give up anything in exchange for the mineral ... at stake: Ukraine has a bounty of titanium, lithium and other minerals, as this map shows.

The existing maps were created decades ago by the Soviet ... will depend on if the private sector is willing to go to Ukraine to mine, said Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Critical Minerals ...

Earlier this month, Zelensky also showed reporters the location of Ukraine's mineral deposits, unfurling a map on a table in the heavily defended president's office in Kyiv. Around half of it ...