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We included it in our victory plan earlier, which was presented by our president to the US and the rest of our partners in 2024.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today program, Sak said
Very soon we'll get used to the very unusual nature of this negotiating process. At the same time, we are not a nation of freeloaders, we understand that this war has lasted for three years and the time has come to switch to a slightly different narrative."
He addedContacts are being prepared at the expert level through the ministries of foreign affairs,
Peskov said, without providing any specific details on when a meeting could happenSo far there are no official statements on this matter. We have only heard that Zelensky seemed to be going to Washington on Friday,
he added
I wanted to have a sentence on security guarantees for Ukraine, and it's important that it's there,
Zelenskyy saidThis is just a start, a framework, it can be a big success,
Zelenskyy saidI would like to have this visit very much,
Zelenskyy said, explainingWe are looking at very unclear, very shadowy dealings, and there are many questions about this deal particularly in the state of war,
said Petrov
Potentially, (gaining an upper hand on Beijing) is what the US administration is trying to do – play the Ukrainian natural resources against what China may have offered to the US economy,
said Leonid Petrov, senior lecturer and dean of business and management at the International College of Management, SydneyUltimately, we don’t know what’s underground with much detail in Ukraine. The majority of Ukraine was mapped 30 to 60 years ago by the Soviet Union, and there's not a lot of updated data mapping,
said Baskaran, who is director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at US-based think tank Center for Strategic and International StudiesWhat we have now essentially is an agreement without actually understanding what is economically viable to mine. Just because you have a resource doesn't make it competitive to mine,
she told CNA’s Asia First programmeWe understand that Trump, who started the trade war with China, is now facing the interruption of supplies of rare earth metals from China,
he addedThis is not a short-term (project) that, by the end of Trump's term, we're going to see minerals coming this way. But again, remember that all minerals policy is long term,
she addedUkraine's deposits of rare earth elements might not be profitable to extract
S&P said
There are many deposits of interest in Ukraine,
BRGM told AFPUkraine has several deposits containing rare earth elements" but none of these deposits have been mined
said Elena Safirova, a Ukraine specialist at the US Geological SurveyTo the credit of the first Trump administration, they have always put critical minerals as a very important policy priority because they knew they were so heavily reliant on China,
Moerenhout said
Ukraine is a significant global supplier of titanium and is a potential source of over 20 critical raw materials."
The European Commission has saidIt’s one thing to have a deal that talks about how might we manage their extraction and their revenue,
Moerenhout said of the agreement