Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to sign a deal on critical minerals with his US counterpart Donald Trump. The newly-negotiated agreement grants US access to Kyiv’s vast mineral wealth, although it does not come with much-needed security guarantees. Instead, Mr Trump said the presence of American workers extracting rare earth metals on Ukrainian soil would provide “automatic security”. The US is hoping to recoup some of what it has spent supplying weapons for a three-year war through a joint reconstruction investment fund. Nick Harper reports from Washington DC.
