Russia now controls at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine's energy, metal and mineral deposits, report says

Markets Insider ^ | 8/12/22 | Brian Evans

[JonPreston]

Russia now controls $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine's key natural resources, according to an analysis for The Washington Post by SecDev.

If the Kremlin succeeds in annexing Ukrainian land seized during Russia's invasion, Kyiv would permanently lose almost two-thirds of its deposits.

Moscow controls 63% of Ukraine's coal deposits, 11% of its oil, 20% of its natural gas, 42% of its metals, and 33% of its rare earths.

If the Kremlin succeeds in annexing Ukrainian land seized during Russia's invasion, Kyiv would lose almost two-thirds of its deposits, the report said, denying the country of its essential economic pillars.

[gleeaikin]

Cool you pipes enterprise. You were NOT one of the first 5 listed as stated. None of the rest pinged have appeared to be Russia/Putin supporters of the lies and propaganda. Except for your last sentence I agree with you.

[McGruff]

True US patriots will never favor the kind of rapacious, theft, murder, and dishonor that Russia’s tyrant has now reverted to.

True US patriots don't give a dam about Ukraine or Russia. Our government is our enemy and it's our border that's being invaded.

[Enterprise]

It wasn’t exactly clear to me who you were addressing your comments to. That being said, I retract my last sentence. My apologies. I am glad we are on the same side.

[BobL]

“In fact those contracts, not NATO fears, was probably the trigger for the Crimea theft.”

It was neither, but then you know that already.

[Monterrosa-24]

Thousands of the REAL Donbas Russian speakers are fighting against the Russian criminal invaders. There is no independent republic. All the teachers, health workers, and town bureaucrats in the occupied areas have to join the party and the party is UNITED RUSSIA. The so-called “separatist” movement is a Russian creation and a continuation of Russia’s genocide against Ukraine.

Do you really believe that the Donbas is fighting for independence? KGB Putin must be proud of his propaganda successes over the gullible and the naïve. Pedophile Putin is the ultimate globalist along with his pals Hlllary and Obama.

[MercyFlush]

Remember, I’m not answering your questions you sniveling cur until you post your crap about me or post an apology.

Anyone curious about this can check my home page.

[mac_truck]

Thousands of the REAL Donbas Russian speakers are fighting against the Russian criminal invaders.

MILLIONS of real Donbas Ukrainians support liberation and independence from the regime in Kiev, are willing to fight for for that freedom, and with the help of the Russian Federation are succeeding. Hard to believe someone who claims to be a Southerner has difficulty with the concept of self determination.

There is no independent republic.

Bull@#$%...Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik were elected as leaders by the people of their respective oblasts and are recognized as such by the Russian Federation among others.

-btw this process will soon be repeated in Kherson and Zaparohzia oblasts, then Kharkiv and Odessa.

Rump Ukraine with its Nazis and corrupt oligarchs will have to learn how to live in peace with its Russian/Ukrainian neighbors, although I'm pretty sure the western Nazis may also want to break away with the help of Poland and others.

NovoRossiya is being forged in the fires civil war and there isn't squat you can do about it.

[Monterrosa-24]

You get all your “information” from Moscow sources. I get my information from people in the Donbas. You are a filthy pro-invader Bolshevik with no knowledge of the Donbas. Stinking communists like you and are destroying homes and lives in Ukraine and literally flying the Hammer and Sickle flag. Yes, those “referendums” are even recognized by North Korea. You are proud of that North Korean recognition aren’t you? Death to the invaders. Glory to Ukraine.

[Navy Patriot]

Pound Sand, gleeaikin, you and your HomoNazi Fascists and Socialist Cohorts have wanted to get your hands on European natural resources since the turn of the Twentieth Century and Russia has been an obstacle to you since before then.

As far as being Greedy, Russia comes in Second to YOU and GloboHomo Elites.

True US patriots will never favor the kind of rapacious, theft, murder, and dishonor that America’s tyrant Biden has now reverted to.

There, fixed it for you, HomoNazi Shill.

[Navy Patriot]

Sorry, Enterprise, I never said that War was about Freedom, it's always about wealth and how to steal it.

Quite often that Wealth is the land ordinary people live on and what's under it.

If one tries to remove or kill one tribe (or all tribes) that live on it, one often gets killed back, to the best of the opposition's ability.

[gleeaikin]

Wow, I must have really pi$$ed off you and your other pro Russia, Putin and anti-Ukraine trolls I enjoy outing. Glad to see it’s working. I even get private messages praising me for creative use of language. I just love the attention!

You poor deluded fools must feel a lot of guilt, conscious or subconscious, for being compelled to support such viscious, murderous behavior as invading and flatening another country, bombing women and children, schools, and hospitals, and risking nuclear devastation for any country downwind of the besieged nuclear plant in Ukraine. The only “good” outcome in all this is the possibility of destroying a lot of western Russia’s territory with Chernoble type fallout. Also much of the Donbas area Putin hoped to reclaim.

[Enterprise]

I agree with everything you posted.

[MalPearce]

That garbage you just posted is about as laughably untrue as that old pony coming out of Steven Seagal’s gob on Russian telly.

Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik held a free and fair referendum? LOL!

Pasechnik’s family were involved in the gold trade in Magadan Oblast, Russia. He’s a member of the Russian ruling party United Russia. Dmitry Medvedev personally handed Pasechnik his party ticket in Moscow. He’s straight up funded by the party in Moscow and is a member of the party in Moscow. Five years ago, Plotnitsky made it pretty clear who did the appointing, and even added that the LPR was “returning to its home – Russia, the Russian world”. There’s Kompromat on that dude. He ain’t an independent actor.

As for Kherson and Zaparohzia oblasts and MORE fake referenda....

1/ Most of the people in both oblasts who have a legitimate right to vote in those areas have been driven out of the area by the conflict.

2/ Most of the NEWCOMERS in both oblasts have been bussed in by the Russians, purely to fake up the numbers.

3/ According to Ukraine’s Constitution, and every related international agreement from 1990 to 2022, Ukraine is a unitary republic, not a federal state. If any Oblast wants greater autonomy like Crimea already had, OR if it wants to secede from Ukraine, it has to do so within the confines of adherence to the principles of the CIS establishment articles, the Budapest Memorandum, and the Ukrainian Constitution.

To wit: a referendum has to allow ALL citizens from that oblast to vote. Not just the new ones bussed in for the vote, and the ones who haven’t left yet.

Secondly, the referendum has to then be ratified by the rest of Ukraine. It cannot arbitrarily secede without a majority in agreement, as it would violate the territorial integrity.

Thirdly, the referendum is de-facto illegitimate if it is being sponsored by external, non-Ukrainian lobbyists. And the separatist movement is most definitely funded and sponsored from Moscow.

How about Denis lets all the ethnic Russians from Donetsk and Luhansk regions back into the region, and back to their homes, and review the wreckage, and THEN cast their votes. If he’s that confident he’d win, and he’s that confident that ethnic Russians are all on his side, he doesn’t need to be bussing in paid-up mercenary settler Russkies from Russia; he could simply let the Ukrainian Russians vote in accordance with the referendum.

[Yo-Yo]

You can take me off your troll ping list. I didn’t even post in this thread.

[mac_truck]

You get all your “information” from Moscow sources.

You have no idea where I get my information or what filters I use on the information I receive.

I get my information from people in the Donbas.

In other words third hand from brainwashed partisans who may or may not still be living in Donbas...no thanks.

You are a filthy pro-invader Bolshevik with no knowledge of the Donbas.

I'm pro self determination for Donbas and crushing the Azov Nazi parasites wherever they nest. Beyond that I'm for regime change in Kiev and the return of historic lands in the West to Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc. Let the EU/IMF rule rump Ukraine from Brussels as a tourist attraction but keep the United States the hell out of it.

Stinking communists like you and are destroying homes and lives in Ukraine and literally flying the Hammer and Sickle flag.

I'm 100% American bub, and the United States has NO business involving itself in civil wars in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, or anywhere else for that matter. When are you big government interventionist boot-lickers gonna figure that out?

Just because you went to Ukraine and came home with a Soviet wife, that doesn't make you an "expert" in Eastern Europe. If anything its a huge minus for objectivity...although I doubt you possess the self awareness to clearly see that for what it is.

[Monterrosa-24]

Yes, my wife was once a Lenin Pioneer. Now she is a strong anti-communist. She loves America but cannot understand why anyone on FreeRepublic would defend the Russian invasion that has destroyed so much of her homeland and murdered so many in her hometown. We have lots of family and friends back in Ukraine. You may be 100 percent American in the Eugene Debs sense, but you are still a stinking filthy Hammer and Sickle spreader. I do know where you get your sources because I see your points on brainless Russian social media and then you spout the same garbage. I didn’t just go to Ukraine once. I’ve traveled in both Russia and Ukraine. You are a mountain of murderous ignorance.

[mac_truck]

Yes, my wife was once a Lenin Pioneer. Now she is a strong anti-communist. She loves America but cannot understand why anyone on FreeRepublic would defend the Russian invasion that has destroyed so much of her homeland and murdered so many in her hometown.

Why is it so hard for people from Soviet Europe to understand that American nationalists DO NOT want to get involved with their centuries old blood feuds?

Have her read this thread for more information and to witness the overwhelming sentiment on FR is to STAY OUT of the conflict in Ukraine... in spite of what globalist tools like her husband have to say.

A show of hands on Ukraine