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Exclusive: US fund to make 'big' investment in Ukraine's critical minerals this fall, economy minister says

A fund set up by Kyiv and Washington will make its second investment in the fall, this time backing a critical minerals project, Ukraine's economy minister said. "In the fall we will announce a big investment into critical minerals," Economy Minister Oleksii Sobolev told the Kyiv Independent in an in-depth interview, in which he spoke at length about how Ukraine is a market economy at the cutting edge of learning to live in a more uncertain world.  Sometimes referred to as the "minerals deal,"

Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 3, 2026.

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Ukraine's education system serves approximately 6 million students across primary, secondary, and higher education institutions. Since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022, war has severely disrupted schooling, damaged over 3,600 educational facilities, and forced millions of students into remote learning or education abroad.

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