Russian officials proposed an agreement for the U.S. to make money off critical minerals and metals under Moscow’s control.

Critical minerals and rare earths are front and center in the efforts to end the war in Ukraine, a dominant focus of U.S. talks with Kyiv and a subject of intensifying diplomacy that also involves Moscow,

Claims of a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia actually repeat key parts of a proposed U.S.-Ukraine agreement for sharing revenue from Ukraine's natural assets, including minerals. This agreement is not a peace deal but would bring Americans to Ukraine and give the U.S. a vested interest in peace in the country.