The Russian foreign minister noted that American companies had already bought up most of the fertile land MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/. The United States needs Ukraine's rare-earth metals, including lithium, and intends to take them as payment for military assistance, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with participants in the academic and educational program of the A. M. Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Support Fund "Dialogue for the Future." "It is no coincidence that US