Trump wants Ukraine’s minerals: Ed Conway explains why
This Is Why
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Kyiv estimates that about 5% of the world's "critical raw materials" are in Ukraine. It also has significant deposits of rare earth metals which are used to produce weapons, wind turbines and electronics.
In today’s episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to Ed Conway, Sky’s economics and data editor, about how valuable Ukraine’s mineral wealth could be for the US.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:00.6 | Coming up on the daily with me Neil Patterson, President Trump wants access to Ukraine's minerals as compensation for its support in the war against Russia. |
| 1:09.2 | Today, we're asking why. |
| 1:13.6 | Uber drivers, have you seen your pay go down while your fees to Uber go up, all because of an algorithm that reduces |
| 1:18.1 | your take-home pay, making you work more for less? We believe Uber's dynamic pay and upfront pricing |
| 1:24.3 | is unfair. That's why Worker Info Exchange has launched the Dynamic |
| 1:28.6 | Pay Claim to seek compensation for drivers who have lost income. If you've driven for Uber |
| 1:34.1 | at any time since 2020, it's time to stand together. Find out more at dynamic pay.org. |
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