Latest news with #forUkraine
Miami Herald
18-07-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Russia Accuses West of ‘Robbery and Looting'
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused "neocolonial" Western powers of modern "robbery and looting" in the pursuit of rare earth metals to gain an advantage in the artificial intelligence race. These highly prized resources are vital for the manufacture of cutting-edge technology, and U.S. President Donald Trump has put a particular emphasis on procuring them from Ukraine, Greenland, China, and elsewhere. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also touted rare earths to Trump from the areas of eastern Ukraine currently occupied by Moscow, which tried to seize control of Kyiv in its full-scale invasion launched in February 2022. "[Rare earth metals] are the prize in the trade wars underway between the key suppliers of AI solutions to the market," Zakharova wrote in an op-ed titled "Neo-coloniAIism" for the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, state news agency TASS reported. "Political elites in Western countries, most of which don't have such reserves, seek to gain preempted and unrestricted access to the fields held by the countries of the global majority, and while doing so, they pursue an aggressive neocolonial policy bordering on robbery and looting." This is a developing article. Updates to follow. Related Articles US Citizen Held at Russia Airport With Gun, $138K CheckRussia's Oil Prices Lag Behind TargetChina Reacts As Russia Floats New Geopolitical Power Bloc With IndiaRussia Issues Nuclear Warning After Trump's Weapons for Ukraine Plan 2025 NEWSWEEK DIGITAL LLC.
BBC News
29-01-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
York fund for Ukrainian refugee hosting scheme extended
Funding for a scheme to host Ukrainian refugees in York has been extended.A £656,000 budget for the Homes for Ukraine programme has been approved by City of York Council for the coming financial November 2024, 410 Ukrainians had arrived in the city, and 85 were still living with funding was needed as there was an "ongoing need for support as new guests have continued to arrive in York," council officers said. The launch of the scheme in March 2022 followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine the previous for Ukraine, otherwise known as the Ukrainian Sponsorship Scheme, allows UK households to sponsor arrivals if they agree to house them for at least six York, the majority of Ukrainians who arrived as part of the scheme are now living in privately rented homes, while 3% are in social housing and 8% have returned to Ukraine, council figures £656,000 fund will be used to pay for three workers and a manager to help people housed in the city, according to the Local Democracy Reporting will also fund trauma support for children, English lessons and employment City of Sanctuary migrant and refugee body has overseen the application process while also supporting arrivals and including York receive £5,900 per arrival if they came to the UK after January 2023 to help them rebuild their lives and resettle into local to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
