Ukraine offers the US key minerals and a high-stakes bid to secure support.

Live in the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Leanna Byrne. Good morning.

World leaders are gathering in Germany for the Munich Security Conference.

It's an annual summit where world leaders debate the most pressing challenges to international security.

The big topic this year is Ukraine. Here's the BBC's James Waterhouse.

The Munich Security Conference this year is going to be shaped by what a ceasefire could look like

and how Europe is going to step up in the words of Donald Trump in terms of global security,

European security, and security for Ukraine in terms of policing a frozen conflict. So there

is lots of calibrations going on. And we're also going to hear from the Vice President

J.D. Vance, who's going to lay out America's position on what it will be looking to contribute in the long-term future.

James Waterhouse there.

Ukraine's President Zelensky is pushing a multi-billion dollar plan to offer the US key access to minerals resources,

hoping to keep American support strong.

The news agency, Reuters, says Ukraine has already handed a draft agreement to

US delegates in Munich. So how significant could such a deal be? Jeff Amers-Rito is an independent

advisor on critical raw materials. The US is looking to strengthen its supply chains for these

critical raw materials because they are essential to basically any

industrial application that we know. So both in the defense machinery, in the energy transition,

and for medical applications, for instance. So we're talking about things like titanium,

which go into fighter jets, but are also used for medical applications. We talk about lithium, which is obviously

key to lithium ion batteries, which go into an electric vehicle. And we're also talking about

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