Putin reportedly stated on Monday night that the nation may begin selling aluminum to the United States and that “we are ready to work with our partners, including the Americans.”
According to The Guardian, the Russian president stated, “I want to emphasize that we have a lot more resources of this kind than Ukraine.”
Within hours of Trump indicating that “major economic development transactions with Russia” were coming, Putin chaired an unscheduled meeting on rare earth metals.
According to the research, which used data from the US Geological Survey, Russia possesses the fifth-largest reserves of rare earth metals in the world.