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Kremlin Forces Massing Around Pokrovsk to Consolidate Control Over Recently Captured Lithium Deposits
Ukraine must mobilize its troops in the area to counter the threat.
The Kremlin is not an enemy you can ever take for granted — not now, not tomorrow, not ever. They are hurting, and that pain has been painfully evident over the past year. Yet despite their mounting troubles, they refuse to accept the writing on the wall. Instead, they continue to push their ground forces into Ukraine. Losing 1,700 troops in a single day is staggering. If the United States had suffered such losses in Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other conflict, the government would have been voted out, and troops would have been brought home.
Not so with the Kremlin.
To Putin, the average Russian soldier is nothing more than expendable cannon fodder — fuel for his ambitions. He grinds them down without hesitation, all for the promise of seizing the next economic prize. Because for Putin, it all comes back to resources. Russia is little more than a gas station with nukes, and he’s desperate to expand his commodity arsenal. Ukraine, with its wealth and sophistication, is an irresistible target.
Beneath Ukraine’s soil lies plenty to capture. One of Putin’s key targets? Lithium deposits. Ukraine holds an estimated 500,000 tonnes of untapped lithium — a resource Putin craves to secure economic leverage.
Described as “white gold,” lithium…