I wasn’t saying the gold wasn’t there, just that it might no longer be Ukraine’s. Weird times.
I believe the gold was removed for "safekeeping" or remitted as payment for political support. In any case, it's gone.
I don't know about the Libyan gold.
It sounds like the new US policy is this:
If you lose a war against the US, you lose your gold.
If you are the winner in a US engineered coup and your country needs to be propped up indefinitely against a nuclear armed enemy, your central bank's gold will pay for this service.