Ukraine war: Trump's peace plan envision major U.S. investment in Russia

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US President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan includes restoring Russian energy to Europe, major US investment in Russian rare-earths, and using frozen Russian assets, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine includes restoring Russian energy flows

00:05to Europe and major U.S. investment in Russian rare earth and energy. According to the Wall

00:11Street Journal, the proposal shared with European leaders, it also calls for using

00:16around $200 billion of frozen Russian funds for projects in Ukraine.

00:24That could include a new data center powered by the Zaporozhia nuclear plant,

00:29which is currently under Russian control. U.S. companies would also invest in Russian

00:34strategic sectors such as rare earth extraction and oil drilling in the Arctic while reopening

00:40Russian energy exports to Europe and beyond. Trump told reporters he exchanged strong words

00:45with European leaders on a call discussing his proposal to end the war. He also said Ukrainian

00:51President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has to be realistic about his country's position on a peace plan.

00:56The Trump administration was earlier reported to be pressuring Kyiv into agreeing to a rapid peace

01:02deal with Russia, with the U.S. The president set a Christmas deadline for an end to the fighting.

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