Ukraine Has Agreed to Allow US Access to $500 Billion in Rare Earth Minerals: Trump

The Ukrainian president says his country has Europe’s largest reserves of titanium and uranium as well as huge underground gas storage sites to store LNG.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows Reuters journalists a map of strategic resources at his presidential office in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 7, 2025. Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

President Donald Trump has said that Ukraine has “essentially agreed” to give the United States access to $500 billion worth of deposits of rare earths and critical minerals.

Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in an interview taped ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl about the half-a-trillion-dollar deal.