Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

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Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

#Russia is exploiting the coal-rich Ukrainian areas it occupies.

Through interviews and #OSINT research we investigated how Russia exports stolen #coal to Turkey, the abuse of miners and the Russian take over of the mines.

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For more than a decade, #Russia has been destroying not only the lives of Ukrainians above ground, but also those beneath it.

One of the biggest victims of the war is the miners, who spend most of their time underground extracting the mineral wealth of #Ukraine.

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According to #Forbes, #Ukraine boasts an estimated $14.8 trillion in mineral resources, 62 percent of which is in #coal.

Since 2014, #Russia has consistently been taking over Ukrainian mines. As of 2022, Russia had seized 63 percent of Ukraine's coal deposits.

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#Russia has started illegally exporting coal for resale at some mines. This coal is produced, sold (often to foreign buyers), and then physically transported by Russian ships from the occupied port of #Mariupol.

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The Counteroffensive has established that #Russia has used three vessels — ALFA 1, ALPHA HERMES and VIKTORIA V — to operate on the occupied territories and export coal illegally.

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The Counteroffensive also found that one of the biggest regional #coal exporters – Don Coal Trade House, operating five mines in the occupied #Luhansk region – systematically shipped coal from the occupied territories to #Turkey in 2024.

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Such actions – and ongoing impunity for #Russia – incentivizes dictatorships to revive colonial practices, in which occupied territories become a raw material base for enriching far-off metropolitan areas.

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To learn more about our #investigation into how #Russia is stealing Ukraine's trillion-dollar mineral wealth, click the link.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/investigation-how-russia-steals-ukraines

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#NEWS OF THE DAY:

TRUMP’S CALL FOR #RUSSIA TO REJOIN AT G7 SUMMIT AS IT STRIKES KYIV:
Despite a fresh Russian attack on Kyiv, Donald #Trump repeated his call to readmit Russia to the G7, calling its 2014 expulsion “a big mistake.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/16/donald-trump-repeats-call-for-russia-to-be-readmitted-at-g7-summit-in-canada

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#UKRAINE OPENS LITHIUM DEPOSITS TO INVESTORS UNDER U.S.-#UKRAINE MINERAL DEAL: On Monday, the Ukrainian government approved access for private companies to develop one of its largest state-owned lithium deposits – the Dobra site in the Kirovohrad region.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/world/europe/us-ukraine-minerals-deal.html

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#DENMARK DEPLOYS ROBOTIC SAILBOATS TO SECURE #BALTIC, NORTH SEAS: The Danish military is using uncrewed sailboats to monitor the increasingly tense waters of the Baltic and North Seas. The vessels can detect activity up to 20–30 miles above and below the surface.

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-robot-sailboats-baltic-sea-bfa31c98cf7c93320115c0ad0e6908c5