{"id":2611,"date":"2025-02-15T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/us-wants-to-get-50-of-ukrainian-minerals-may-deploy-its-troops-to-guard-them-nbc-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:02:02","slug":"us-wants-to-get-50-of-ukrainian-minerals-may-deploy-its-troops-to-guard-them-nbc-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/us-wants-to-get-50-of-ukrainian-minerals-may-deploy-its-troops-to-guard-them-nbc-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2177668198.jpg\" alt=\"US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports\"><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. seeks to obtain 50% of Ukraine&#8217;s rare minerals and has signaled openness to deploy American troops to guard them if there is a deal with Russia to end the war, NBC reported on Feb. 15, citing unnamed American officials.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/us-treasury-secretary-meets-zelensky-passes-draft-agreement-on-critical-minerals\/\">delivered<\/a> a draft of the agreement to President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to Kyiv on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky refused to sign the agreement after Bessent&#8217;s presentation, saying he needed to study it and consult with others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/trump-officials-us-owning-half-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-rcna192325\">NBC reported<\/a>, citing eight U.S. officials briefed on the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said on Feb. 14 that his lawyers would examine the document handed over by Bessent in Kyiv and make some changes to it. He called the U.S. proposal &#8220;a memorandum,&#8221; not a security agreement.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to broker a <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/end-war-as-quickly-as-possible-us-defense-secretary-outlines-ramstein-aims\/\">swift peace deal<\/a> to end Russia&#8217;s full-scale war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Following up on his <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-business-roundup-trump-wants-ukraines-rare-earths\/\">earlier proposition<\/a> of ensuring U.S. support for Ukraine in exchange for rare earth minerals, Trump claimed that Kyiv has &#8220;essentially agreed&#8221; to a deal on a $500 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-may-be-russian-someday-trump-suggests-while-announcing-500-billion-rare-earth-agreement\/\">resource deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/lets-do-a-deal-zelensky-tells-reuters-hes-open-to-trumps-mineral-partnership\/\">already signaled<\/a> it is open to developing a partnership in resource extraction with the U.S. and other partners in exchange for security guarantees, but details on such a deal remain murky.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/dmytro-kuleba-trumps-rare-earth-deal-risks-ukraine-repeating-historys-mistakes\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Dmytro Kuleba: Trump\u2019s rare earth deal risks Ukraine repeating history\u2019s mistakes<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">On Feb. 10, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that he aimed to secure \u201c$500 billion worth of rare earth\u201d minerals as part of negotiations over continued U.S. support for Ukraine amid its war with Russia. When history repeats itself, it\u2019s time to reflect. At the beginning<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Dmytro Kuleba<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2196132987-4.jpg\" alt=\"US wants to get 50% of Ukrainian minerals, may deploy its troops to guard them, NBC reports\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/us-wants-to-get-50-of-ukrainian-minerals-signals-openness-to-deploying-american-troops-to-guard-them-nbs-reports\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. seeks to obtain 50% of Ukraine&#8217;s rare minerals and has signaled openness to deploy American troops to guard them if there is a deal with Russia to end the war, NBC reported on Feb. 15, citing unnamed American officials. 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