Summary
Ukraine is hesitating to sign a U.S.-backed deal that would grant American companies access to 50% of its rare earth minerals in exchange for continued military support.
President Zelenskyy cited legal concerns and the lack of security guarantees.
The deal, pushed by Trump allies, aims to showcase Ukraine’s value to U.S. interests while reducing reliance on Chinese minerals.
However, Kyiv’s 2021 strategic partnership with the EU complicates negotiations, as European leaders resist surrendering shared resources to Washington. Talks remain ongoing.
The source of this information isn’t investigative journalism, it’s claims from the Ukrainian government (as stated inside the article), which is famously known to be at war with the country it’s accusing of war crimes. Russian government sources claim that Ukrainians were performing ethnic cleansing of Russian Ukrainians before the invasion and they’re saving them from genocide, should we take that at face value too?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64985009
The news source points to a UN report which it links. If you open the UN report, it says:
“A data collection system maintained by the Government of Ukraine indicated that 16,221 children had been deported to the Russian Federation as of the end of February 2023. The Commission has not been able to verify these figures.”
I’m sorry, but there aren’t investigative journalism or independent sources evidencing widespread deportation of children, best they can point to is 200 documented cases and the Ukrainian government figures.
The un hasn’t given any reason to doubt these claims. They felt confident enough in them to cite them.
Not being able to verify = there is no shown proof
Not being able to verify=there is a war going on, but the data is coming from an otherwise reputable source, during a war. They felt confident in the data provided enough to speak to it.
Please explain to me how state propaganda is a reliable source during war
Certain countries governments have a reputation, and are considered reputable. For example Germany, is generally considered a trust worthy source of information, the united states no longer is. See how that works? Just like with people, Einstein was generally reputable and trustworthy, and Asad wasn’t.
Speak for yourself, Germany’s coverage of the genocide in palestine is atrocious and there wasn’t one German media that didn’t replicate the “ghost of Kiev” news. You happen to trust Germany because you have a pro-western bias, Germany’s information is as shit as that of the US.
Trusting a government source without further evidence on information about geopolitically charged topics is insane.