Trump: Zelenskyy to visit U.S. on Friday, wants to sign minerals deal

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U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy intends to visit Washington later this week to sign a critical minerals deal that is central to Kyiv's push to win U.S. ongoing support of its conflict with Russia.  Trump also said he was interested in buying Russian rare earth minerals.  #trump #ukraine #russia #putin #russiaukraine #europe #us #usa

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00:00Yeah, I hear that. I hear that he's coming on Friday. Certainly, it's okay with me if

00:04he'd like to. And he would like to sign it together with me. And I understand that's

00:08a big deal, very big deal. And I think the American people, even if you look at polling,

00:13they're very happy because, you know, Biden was throwing money around like it's cotton

00:17candy. And it's it's a very big deal. It could be a trillion dollar deal. It could be whatever.

00:25But it's rare earths and other things. And look, we're spending hundreds of billions

00:31of dollars on Ukraine and Russia fighting a war that should have never, ever happened.

00:38That's a war that would have never happened if I were president. I'd like to buy minerals

00:42on Russian land, too, if we can. The rare earth. They have very good rare earth also.

00:48They both do. I would say that. And oil and gas. Look, it's a great thing if we sell this.

00:52It's great for Russia, too, because we could do deals there. They have very valuable land

00:57that isn't utilized. So something like that could take place. Yeah.

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