US President Donald Trump said this afternoon that he would speak to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky after Kyiv ratified a mining deal with Washington, writesThe Telegraph.

“We have just concluded a deal with Ukraine on rare earth elements. It's been fully ratified and approved by their legislature, and so we appreciate it, and I'll talk to the president in a little while, a little bit later,” the US president said at the White House.