Ukraine has rejected a U.S. proposal to own about 50% of the country's rare earth minerals, the Financial Times reported Saturday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks to negotiate a better deal. U.

The United States is pushing back against language in a Group of Seven statement portraying Russia as the aggressor in its ongoing war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the matter.

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An economic partnership between Ukraine and the U.S. would benefit both countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in an opinion piece for the Financial Times on Saturday.

“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part of a bigger picture,” Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and justice minister who has led the negotiations, told the Financial Times on Tuesday.

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Donald Trump signalled the US is prepared to forge an “economic” deal with Russia, saying Washington had recently held “very good talks” with Moscow over ending the war in Ukraine.

His name is among the increasing number of Russian men in their 50s, 60s and even 70s fighting and dying on the frontline, as the make-up of the Kremlin’s forces has shifted towards so-called volunteers, men who are persuaded to enlist with the army with the offer of a wage and generous bonus.