The statistics office said the main industries of Ukraines Donetsk region, one of the areas where the war is most intense, had suffered, with coal extraction down almost 60 percent and steel production down by 30 percent. In other words, while the most important commodity for Europe is gas, whose supply Russia largely controls on the margin, for Ukraine the one commodity, located deep within the perimeter of the raging civil war, and which it desperately needs to regain access to to stop its economic collapse, is coal. zerohedge/news/2014-09-18/more-just-gas-natural-resource-reason-ukraine-civil-war
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:16:06 +0000
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