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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejects Trump proposal for rare earth minerals
President Trump wants Ukraine to repay America for all the money that was funneled to them for the war effort during the Biden administration. Zelenskyy isn’t having the 50 percent fee of all its rare earth minerals as repayment, especially since he feels the proposal doesn’t do an adequate job of projecting Ukraine from additional Russian attacks, according to NBC News.