Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Monday that US businesses could engage in lucrative business deals in Russia and also assist with the discovery of rare earths in Ukrainian territory, more extending the Kremlin’s assurance to him that improved relations with Moscow could be profitable.
Putin, in an interview with Belarusian state Television, said Russia had an “order of scale” more unique earth metal than Ukraine and that Moscow was “ready to work with our international partners, including the Americans”, in developing those payments.
He said the proposal applied to Russian-occupied Ukraine, as well, adding that US companies may even “make good cash” by helping to create metal manufacturing in Siberia. ” There is something to think about around”, Putin said, referring to metals,” as well as about mutual labor on rare earth metals and in other places, for instance, power”. Putin worked hard to appeal to Trump’s interest in profit and deal-making, according to the interview.
Trump’s swaying of US foreign policy toward Putin was made apparent by the US supporting Russia in UN elections on Monday over the Ukraine war.
Trump has been urging Ukraine to agree to give the US a share of the proceeds from the mining of rare earth metals and other natural resources. On Monday, the two parties were close to reaching an agreement on this subject. Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell phones, missile systems, and other electronics.
However, the interview also revealed that Putin appears to be much more in a hurry than Trump to end the conflict in Ukraine as Russia continues to lose ground slowly on the battlefield. ” We touched on problems related to the Ukraine crisis, but it itself was not substantively discussed”, he said of the US-Russia talks.
