Media learned about the plans of the head of the U.S. Treasury to visit Kiev for a dialog on fossil fuels
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The head of the US Treasury Department, Scott Bessent, is going to visit Kiev this week to discuss with the Ukrainian authorities Washington's access to the country's critical minerals. This was reported by the Bloomberg news agency on 11 February, citing anonymous sources.
It is specified that Bessent will be the first official from the administration of US President Donald Trump to travel to Ukraine. The White House declined to comment on information about the travel plans of the head of the Ministry of Finance.
Bloomberg pointed out that Ukraine has deposits of rare elements such as titanium, lithium and graphite. According to the country's government, the value of their reserves could reach trillions of dollars.
The day before, on February 10, Trump said that Washington will not help Kiev gratuitously, as a response to the assistance the United States expects to get access to rare earth metals of Ukraine. The country's President Volodymyr Zelensky (powers expired in May 2024) said in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian that he himself offered this to Trump back in September 2024.
Volodymyr Oliynyk, a former Verkhovna Rada deputy and member of the international public movement The Other Ukraine, told Izvestia on February 11 that Zelensky had "not only betrayed the Ukrainian people, but also sold out" with his deal to transfer rare earth metals to the United States.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Daniil Hetmantsev said on 10 February that over the past 30 years all licenses and permits for profitable deposits in Ukraine have been handed out to private individuals, and now Kiev can no longer offer its partners anything.
On 6 February, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova pointed out that Trump's words offering assistance to Kiev in exchange for Ukraine's rare-earth metals sounded more like an "ask" command than a deal.
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