In a recent televised interview, President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia's openness to providing the U.S. with access to its abundant rare minerals. This statement emerges amid U.S. pressures on Ukraine regarding its mineral assets, suggesting a strategic counteroffer from Moscow. Additionally, Putin endorsed President Trump's nuclear arms control proposal involving defense spending reductions. He emphasized Russia's superior reserves of natural resources compared to Ukraine, particularly rare earth metals and aluminum, which are essential in various industries. Putin's outreach aims to foster potential cooperation with American companies.
"We would be ready to offer [cooperation] to our American partners... if they showed interest in working together. We certainly have substantially, and I want to emphasize this, substantially more resources of this kind than Ukraine."
"We could come to an agreement with the United States - the United States would cut [defense spending] by 50 percent, and we would cut by 50 percent... We think the proposal is good, and we are ready to discuss it."
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