Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Russian government official found dead in Donbas
ALONA MAZURENKO – MONDAY, 15 AUGUST 2022, 17:40
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In the Ukraine war, a battle for the nation’s mineral and energy wealth
(WaPo, aug.10)Less than 100 miles east, artillery salvos pound Ukrainian defensive positions as Russian forces inch forward. But below the surface of this sprawling Donbas coal field, a dwindling number of miners are still working, extracting a fuel that is emblematic of one of Ukraine’s biggest challenges.
The Kremlin is robbing this nation of the building blocks of its economy — its natural resources.
After nearly six months of fighting, Moscow’s sloppy war has yielded at least one big reward: expanded control over some of the most mineral-rich lands in Europe. Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium and massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars.
The lion’s share of those coal deposits, which for decades have powered Ukraine’s critical steel industry, are concentrated in the east, where Moscow has made the most inroads. That’s put them in Russian hands, along with significant amounts of other valuable energy and mineral deposits used for everything from aircraft parts to smartphones, according to an analysis for The Washington Post by the Canadian geopolitical risk firm SecDev.
Russia possesses vast amounts of natural resources. But denying Ukraine its own has strategically undermined the country’s economy, forcing Kyiv to import coal to keep the lights on in cities and towns. Should the Kremlin succeed in annexing the Ukrainian territory it has seized — as U.S. officials believe it will try to do in coming months — Kyiv would permanently lose access to almost two-thirds of its deposits.
Ukraine would also lose myriad other reserves, including stores of natural gas, oil and rare earth minerals — essential for certain high-tech components — that could hamper Western Europe’s search for alternatives to imports from Russia and China…
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Moscow blames saboteurs for explosions that rock ammo dump in Russian-annexed Crimea
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday blamed saboteurs for orchestrating a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in Russian-annexed Crimea, a rare admission that armed groups loyal to Ukraine are damaging military logistics and supply lines on territory it controls. The incident follows a...
New "pops" in Crimea! The ammunition depot burns beautifully near Dzhankoem
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At about 6:00 am, an ammunition depot detonated near the village of Maiskoye in the Dzhankoysky district of Crimea. Now the area is cordoned off, local residents were evacuated for a five-kilometer zone. The cause of the explosions and fire at the ammunition depot in the Crimea is being investigated. Version and sabotage are not excluded
In the Kherson region, teenagers found a machine gun and a Mukha grenade launcher and accidentally fired from it
The crew of the Russian Tor-M2 air defense system spoke about their combat work in Ukraine and the interception of the Ukrainian tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex. Shooting down a ballistic missile is a difficult task for an air defense system of this class.
In the Kherson region, teenagers found a machine gun and a Mukha grenade launcher and accidentally fired from it
The crew of the Russian Tor-M2 air defense system spoke about their combat work in Ukraine and the interception of the Ukrainian tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex. Shooting down a ballistic missile is a difficult task for an air defense system of this class.
Russia’s Panicked Confession: This Is What Scares Us Most
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyIn a recent interview with Russian state media outlet TASS, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s North American Department, Aleksandr Darichev, said that in the event the U.S. designates Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, it...
Probably just one of those accidental ammunition fires again.
