• Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    A large-scale program of socio-economic development has been launched, essentially a program of reviving our ancestral, historical Russian lands.

    • Vladimir Putin, Russian President

    He’s extracting rightful American natural resources Zelensky promised us >:( freakin’ Putin

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      Bobrykivske’s reserves contain about 1.64 tons of gold, which would be worth almost $260 million based on current spot prices, according to the auction documents.

      Australian mining company Korab Resources had previously been developing the site. But Korab halted its work in 2014 when the area was seized by Russian-backed separatists, making it impossible for the company to access the region, which came under Western sanctions, and it wrote off the value of the project, according to Executive Chairman Andrej Karpinski and publicly available Ukrainian corporate records.

      And “Australian” resources.

      Those evil Russians think Slavs should control resources in Ukraine!