They’ve got a lot of oil in Ukraine.
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Not true, lots of NG and coal, in the Russian Donbass provinces …..which in 2015 the Ukies started shelling inabling the Eastern provinces to get the oil companies in to drill.
Vlad will do as he said, secured the eastern provinces freedom from Ukraine- and then sell the EU the badly needed NG. Of course, that must be accomplished without Zelensky starting WW3.
Checkmate.
Spot- on!
"Interestingly, in June 2013, Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov claimed that Ukraine would be natural gas self-sufficient within 10 years and that it would be able to export some gas as well by the mid-2020s. With Ukraine currently getting over two-thirds of its natural gas from Russia and being Russia's second largest natural gas customer, one has to wonder how much of a role recent oil industry activity in Ukraine and Crimea, in particular, have played in Russia's current political moves in the area. With major international oil companies about to break Russia's near monopoly on natural gas in Ukraine, would one have to think that Russia and Gazprom would feel somewhat threatened. When one looks at how many deals Ukraine has signed with multinational oil companies in the past two years, the timing of Russia's return to the Ukraine seems more than coincidental."