Russian leader Vladimir Putin told state media Monday evening, “We are ready to work with our partners, including the Americans” to access mineral reserves — including in Russian-occupied Ukraine. He also suggested Russia could resume selling aluminum to the U.S., saying Moscow was ready to supply “about 2 million tons to the American market.”

French president Emmanuel Macron has said that peace between Ukraine and Russia could be agreed in the coming weeks, after the United States sided with Russia in the latest UN Security Council vote on the third anniversary of Russia 's invasion of Ukraine that takes a neutral position on the conflict.