U.S. and Ukraine Discuss Critical Minerals Deal

Ukrainian officials are discussing a possible deal on critical minerals between Ukraine and the United States with U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg, an anonymous source told Bloomberg on Friday, commenting on closed-door discussions of the past few hours.  The talks come as relations between Ukraine and the U.S. strained over the past weeks, with the U.S. launching discussions with Russia on a potential end to the war in Ukraine, without the participation of Ukraine or the EU.  After the two Presidents, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy,…