DAVOS, Jan 24 – Ukraine is currently preparing its own strategy for the development of the critical raw materials (CRM) industry, will discuss it with partners and present it at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC-2025) in Rome in July this year, said First Deputy Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev.

"Ukraine has a rich resource base of strategically important minerals necessary for the economic and energy security of Western countries. So the development of this sector can provide us with rapid economic growth. We can become one of the leading countries in building value chains for production technologies that require CRM," he said at a session dedicated to CRM at the Ukrainian House on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.