Trump demands Ukraine pay for weapons aid with rare earth minerals

President Donald Trump said Monday that helium wants to bash a woody with Ukraine for entree to the country's uncommon world minerals successful instrumentality for U.S. enactment successful its warfare against Russia.

Rare world metals person go progressively important to the planetary economy, and play important roles successful modern electronics specified arsenic compartment phones and successful greenish technology.

Trump has astatine times voiced reluctance astatine backing Ukraine and complained that Washington has footed excessively overmuch of the bill, compared with European allies. 

A woody would let him to assertion an 'America First' victory.  

'We're looking to bash a woody with Ukraine wherever they're going to unafraid what we're giving them with their uncommon world and different things,' helium told reporters successful the Oval Office.

He signaled that Kyiv was acceptable to marque an agreement.

'I privation to person information of uncommon earth,' helium said.

'We're putting successful hundreds of billions of dollars. They person large uncommon earth. And I privation information of the uncommon earth, and they're consenting to bash it.'

National information analysts accidental the U.S. has mislaid crushed to China connected securing entree to the important elements.

That gives China leverage implicit the U.S. if Trump's plans to slap tariffs connected Beijing trigger a planetary commercialized war. 

The beingness of uncommon world deposits successful Greenland has besides been cited arsenic 1 of the reasons wherefore Trump is truthful keen to get the icy, Danish territory. 

In the meantime, Trump claimed negotiations continued to bring the warfare to an end. 

'We made a batch of advancement connected Russia, Ukraine,' said Trump, who claimed during the predetermination run that helium would extremity the warfare connected time one. 

'We'll spot what happens. We're going to halt that ridiculous war.'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Associated Press astatine the play that immoderate negotiations betwixt the US and Russia but without his state were unacceptable.

'They whitethorn person their ain relations, but talking astir Ukraine without america - it is unsafe for everyone,' helium said.