Some of these Chinese suppliers are partially owned by the Chinese government, despite its public denials of supporting Russia's war effort. These minerals are used in a wide range of military ...

What Does The Kremlin Think About All This? Russia also has substantial rare earth and critical mineral reserves, though its production capacity lags substantially behind China and other countries.

Lviv, Feb 5 (EFE).- The suggestion by Donald Trump that the United States could support Ukraine in its fight against Russia in exchange for access to its rare earth minerals received a mostly ...

An investigation by Schemes, the investigative unit of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service, has found that these Chinese companies are feeding these critical minerals to Russia’s military-industrial ...

US President Donald Trump has said he wants access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits in exchange for future military aid that Kyiv needs as it continues to defend itself against Russia’s aggression.

While Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of minerals, including lithium and titanium, any such deal would have to overcome the fact that a lot of those resources exist in territory captured by ...

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 ...

Ukraine has one of the largest untapped resources of rare earth minerals, worth around £12 trillion. It comes as A Russian missile strike damaged an apartment bloc and administrative buildings ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that comments by US President Donald Trump suggesting he wants Ukraine to supply Washington with rare earth minerals show he now wants Kyiv to pay for US assistance ...

(Photo by Handout / Armed Forces of Ukraine / AFP) The woman, reportedly speaking about a relative involved in the fighting, described the battlefield as a “meat grinder,” contradicting Russian media ...