Ukraine mineral resources

Russia plans to strip minerals from at least 18 deposits in occupied southern Ukraine – Zelenskyy

Russia has prepared a plan to loot and deindustrialize the southern Ukrainian regions currently under its occupation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on May 6, following a briefing from Ukraine's spy chief Oleh Ivashchenko.

6 May, 08:05 PM

Ukraine’s Truskavets resort discovers brine saltier than Dead Sea

A new deposit of mineral brines with an extremely high salt concentration of 360–365 grams per liter — higher than the Dead Sea — has been discovered in the resort town of Truskavets in Lviv Oblast, lviv.media reported on April 2.

6 April, 03:29 PM

U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Fund starts work – Svyrydenko

The American-Ukrainian Reconstruction Investment Fund has begun operations, with the first set of priority projects already being formed, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced in a post on X on Oct. 15 following a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

15 October 2025, 02:01 PM

Syria proposes Ukraine-style mineral deal to Trump for sanction relief

Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has proposed offering US President Donald Trump a Ukrainian-style mineral resources deal and a tower in Damascus, The Times reported on May 13.

13 May 2025, 11:44 AM

Zelenskyy, Trump talk after resource deal ratification

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on May 8, hours after the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) ratified the U.S.–Ukrainian resource exploitation agreement.

9 May 2025, 01:07 AM

Poroshenko demands government meeting to review US resource deal

Former Ukrainian president and political opposition leader Petro Poroshenko seeks a meeting with government officials to review the U.S.–Ukrainian resource exploitation agreement before its ratification, Poroshenko said on May 6.

7 May 2025, 11:25 AM

Ukraine to crack down on ‘dormant’ mining licenses, plans surprise inspections

Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources plans to carry out unannounced inspections of mining licenses that have remained inactive or underutilized for the past decade, Interfax-Ukraine reported on May 3.

3 May 2025, 04:49 PM

US–Ukraine resource fund unlikely to generate revenues in less than 10 years — report

Ukraine and the United States may not see any revenues from their resource exploitation deal for a decade or more, Reuters reported on May 1.

2 May 2025, 02:07 AM

US and Ukraine near signing minerals framework agreement

The U.S. and Ukraine are set to sign a framework agreement on minerals this week, the Financial Times reported on April 28.

28 April 2025, 05:00 PM

Critical minerals agreement moves forward, but fund structure may shift — Ukrainian MP

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal accurately said that Ukraine and the United States agreed not to count prior U.S. aid toward the critical minerals agreement, but he left out a key detail, Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak wrote on April 28.

28 April 2025, 10:16 AM

Resource deal with US far from finalized, Ukrainian negotiator says

Ukraine and the United States have made some progress on drafting a bilateral resource extraction agreement, but the document is still far from being ready to be signed, head of the Ukrainian negotiating team, deputy Economy Minister Taras Kachka, said on April 16.

16 April 2025, 10:38 PM

Bessent accuses Zelenskyy’s circle of bad advice over minerals' deal

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to sign a proposed U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement because, in Bessent’s words, “corrupt people wouldn’t have liked it.” Bessent made the remarks during an April 4 interview with controversial American media personality Tucker Carlson, who is widely known for his pro-Russian views.

5 April 2025, 05:34 PM

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