The Donetsk basin (Donbass), located on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, is the largest in Ukraine. The discovered reserves of industrial categories of Donbass coal are 57 billion tons. With an annual production of 100 million tons, these reserves will last for 570 years.

There are three main oil and gas bearing provinces in Ukraine. The main one is the Dnieper-Donetsk oil and gas province

Ukraine has the largest reserves of titanium in Europe. 15 titanium deposits have been discovered in the country (4 of which are being developed). The deposits are located in the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Donetsk regions.

Ukraine has 1.8% of world uranium reserves, 45.6 thousand tons. There are 17 deposits (14 in the Kirovohrad region, 2 in the Nikolaev region, 1 in the Dnipropetrovsk region).

Odessa, the third largest city in Ukraine, is a popular tourist resort and is strategically significant. “It is fundamental to the way it exports agricultural goods, iron ore, titanium; Ukraine is very rich in minerals and this stuff generally travels by sea,”

Edited by Mapletree (05 Mar 2022 10.57pm)

Like I said before, you are the hatchling.

You wake up every day like you are entirely new to the world. Most people are like you which is depressing.

(I’m not saying you are bad by the way)

The idea that 'the mainstream' in the West offers zero truth and reliable coverage at all, and that in contrast any basement dweller going or even the Kremlin gift us with some kind of unvarnished truth is risible to the extreme. Russia is going to extreme lengths (both legally and in terms of censorship) to reframe perception of this conflict, primarily because their message and their actions are worlds apart.

Nobody is denying that in terms of NATO there were previously options with how this was played. But we are where are are, and where people buy into laughable narratives about 'special operations' to 'denazify' Ukraine with repeated denials regarding civiliation casualties, they're fine ones to talk about propaganda.

I get a bit fed up with some self proclaiming a kind of love of country above all others, while simultaneously holding broad, pointless dislikes of their own countrymen and a weird subservience to murderous, authoritarian regimes that make life in this country look like a dream.

If you like Russia so much f off and move there. As I said before, such traitor level behaviour is perfectly fine to state here. Do your own country down, do down the west, you're free to. Make Russia or other such regimes your home though and you'd fast end up with a cell instead of a soap box for such behaviour.

Edited by BlueJay (06 Mar 2022 3.51am)

The human tragedy is not faked when you watch a live broadcast from reception centre for refugees on the Polish border.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

As that means I have 28347 days worth of similar experiences the idea that I have learned nothing in that time is a little improbable, isn't it? Especially when you consider everything I have managed in that time.

People who deny reality, as you very clearly do, are extremely isolated and becoming ever more so. The evidence is on our screens and in our ears constantly. Some things are self-evidently true, and this is certainly one of them.

Having contrary political opinions, or views on social issues, is all part of a healthy discourse in which we can all express ourselves, and then accept the will of the majority.

Riling against that which is obviously true is just stupidity.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

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