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Why does Ukraine matter?

Why is does Putin attacking Ukraine?

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I don’t know what all this war is about. It might be for geographical positioning, or maybe for influence over the border between NATO and Russia, or maybe Putin tries to get more sympathizers from the Russian people, or maybe Putin is just at that age when he needs more confirmation that he is powerful.

Thinking of all these possibilities, I neglected one that might be more important. What about the resources. are there any resources in Ukraine that maybe Putin wants?

I stumbled upon a post on Facebook listing a lot of statistics about Ukraine’s resources. So I search on the internet for other references for these statistics.

Ukraine is the second-largest country by area in Europe by area and has a population of over 40 million - more than Poland.

Ukraine natural ore reserves:

1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores; 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves; 2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves); 2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons); 2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves; 3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters) 4th in the world by the total value of natural resources; 7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

Ukraine is an important agricultural country:

1st in Europe in terms of arable land area; 3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume); 1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil; 2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports; 3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world; 4th largest producer of potatoes in the world; 5th largest rye producer in the world; 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons); 8th place in the world in wheat exports; 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs; 16th place in the world in cheese exports.

Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

Ukraine is an important industrialized country:

1st in Europe in ammonia production; Europe's 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system; 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants; 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km); 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment; 3rd largest iron exporter in the world 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world; 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers; 4th place in the world in clay exports 4th place in the world in titanium exports 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates; 9th place in the world in exports of defense industry products; 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

It seems that Ukraine has a lot of resources. That might be one of the reasons Putin wants it soo much.

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If you want a more positive view of things I recommend reading these articles:

Christina and Sorina Raluca Băbău, I know this is not the type of article you write about, but I wanted to attach some positive ideas as well, just to bring a little light to the readers. I hope you don’t mind, and, if you do, please tell me and I will remove the tags.

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