In the southern Ukrainian lands currently under occupation, Russia is planning virtually the same processes of looting and deindustrialization that it carried out in the territory of the seized Donbas. This was reported by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy following a report by the head of the HUR, Oleh Ivashchenko, UNN reports.
We have clear documents regarding the Russians' plans for using our temporarily occupied territory. In the southern Ukrainian lands currently under occupation, Russia is planning virtually the same processes of looting and deindustrialization that it carried out in the territory of the seized Donbas. They plan to conduct geological exploration, rapid extraction, and the removal of valuable raw materials from at least 18 deposits, namely: titanium, lithium, tantalum, niobium, zircon, molybdenum, and graphite. The occupiers are also planning further measures to seize and export this year's grain harvest. We are preparing to counter this,
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Furthermore, according to the President, there is updated information regarding the internal Russian assessment of losses from Ukrainian long-range sanctions.
The volume of direct damage and the consequences of the slowdown in production and export processes in Russia are growing, and this has a particularly negative effect on the state of Russian regional budgets. The actual bankruptcy of a significant portion of Russian regional budgets cannot be hidden,