Ukraine has proven reserves equivalent to 638.4 times its annual consumption. This means it has about 638 years of Coal left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).
Despite having the world’s sixth-largest coal reserve, 90 percent of it in the Donbas region, Ukraine risks power cuts from shortages. President Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced that Ukraine was ceasing exports of oil, coal and gas to meet needs this winter. Miners have more immediate concerns.
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.
And there are no American government regulatory lampreys around to suck the development efforts dry...
It doesn’t matter how much one can generate if transmission lines, distribution lines, and substations are destroyed.
Which the Russians occupied in 2014, at least in part to steal the coal and other mineral resources in that region. Russia still mostly holds it. Ukraine could use it back.