U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he wanted Ukraine to supply the country with rare earths in return for financially supporting Kyiv's war effort against Russia. The remark appears to overlap with part of a war strategy,

The president appears to have adopted a proposal first made last year that offers “strategic partners” such as the U.S. special access to Ukraine's glut of natural resources.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he plans to negotiate an agreement with the Ukrainian authorities that would link American military and financial aid to Ukraine with the supply of rare earth metals “and other things” to the United States.