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Nino Antadze, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Prince Edward Island

Ukraine’s natural resources are at centre stage in the ongoing war, and will likely remain there

Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world now knows the exact price for American military support of Ukraine. During a recent interview with Fox News, United States President Donald Trump put a $500 billion price tag on American aid to the war-torn country.

But there was a catch: the exchange should be made in the form of Ukraine’s valuable natural resources, including rare earth minerals. “We have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,” Trump said in the interview.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has since told his aides to reject the proposal.

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