Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an exclusive interview Friday with Newsmax, discussed his meeting with Vice President JD Vance earlier in the day on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

Zelenskyy told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” in Munich that Ukraine and the U.S. came close to reaching a deal for American investment in his nation’s vast reservoir of rare earth minerals and other metals such as titanium, uranium, and lithium.

Trump said Feb. 3 that access to Ukraine’s natural resources would be a condition for the U.S’ continued military support to the war-torn nation.

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