Who needs 300bn, when you can have 12 trillion? This bit talks about newly acquired Russian territories as of August 2022. Sure, Ukraine did manage to recover some of those territories in Kherson and Kharkov regions. However the bulk of those natural resources are located in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporozhia regions.
Russia now controls at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine's energy, metal and mineral deposits, report says
August 2022
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.
