A war for tens of trillions of dollars. What Russia captured and plans to capture in Ukraine

Do you think war is too expensive a pleasure for Russia? Do you think they are worried about the hundreds of billions of dollars already spent (blocked, lost)?
The stake for them is, in fact, much higher - tens of trillions of dollars!
   And they are ready to defend them to the end...of course, to the end!
Russia does not know how to produce modern products (let someone prove otherwise), but it wants to be an important, influential country in the world. And they do this because of the large territory and natural resources they have. In particular, the natural resources used by the Russian economy make up 95.7 percent of the national wealth. And that is the sign of the banana republic.
They are still a major player in markets such as oil, gas, railroads, uranium, gold and many other commodities. Everyone remembers how Russia created an energy crisis in Europe in 2021 by restricting gas supplies?
They want great influence and control, and here Ukraine is just a "ring of omnipotence" for them.
According to The Washington Post, the Russians already control $12.4 trillion of Ukraine's natural resources. We will not dwell on the method of calculation, but they consider that the main part of the controlled property is hard coal. Which is estimated at 11.9 trillion dollars (30 billion tons). And this is only coal in the occupied territories.

For them, Ukraine is just a "ring of omnipotence"
A few more numbers:
1. Ukraine, according to analysts (with whom we agree), has deposits of 117 of the 120 most commonly used minerals, including huge resources of fossil fuels
2. According to experts, during the full-scale war, Russia occupied:
— 41 coal deposits,
— 27 natural gas fields,
— 14 propane reservoirs,
— nine oil fields,
— six iron ore deposits,
— two deposits of titanium ores,
— two deposits of zirconium ore,

— one strontium deposit, one lithium deposit, one uranium deposit and
— one gold deposit.
In general, Russia today controls: 63 percent of Ukraine's coal deposits, 42 percent of metal deposits, 20 percent of gas deposits, 11 percent of oil deposits, as well as 33 percent of rare earth deposits.
3. $11.4 trillion is a figure based only on the price of Ukrainian coal.
4. To that should be added:
Gas. According to the annual report BP Statistical Review of World Energy, natural gas reserves in Ukraine amount to 1.1 trillion cubic meters. Ukraine ranks second in Europe for hydrocarbon reserves after Norway, whose reserves amount to 1.78 trillion.
This is, of course, a lot. However, according to the International Energy Agency, gas reserves in Ukraine already amount to 5.4 trillion cubic meters. And this is 10th in the world, not 25th.
Cplina in Europe today is approximately $300, and at full cost of production $170. Gas reserves in Ukraine can be estimated at approximately $700 billion (net margin including production).
Uranium. Confirmed uranium reserves are 270,000 tons, and the resource base is about 560,000 tons. The price of uranium is around 60 dollars/kg. You can calculate the value of Ukrainian uranium reserves at a production price of $30 (reference value from Kazakhstan). The market value, excluding mining costs, is about eight trillion dollars.
In addition to the above, five percent of the world's reserves of critical materials are concentrated in Ukraine. And here the value is generally great.
In particular, the reserves of lithium in Ukraine are more than 500,000 tons. The market value of a ton of lithium is more than $80,000. Try multiplying.
Let's summarize.
Russia, of course, attacked Ukraine and wanted to occupy it in order to have: a guarantee of preserving the stolen history, a buffer with NATO, a large territory, more manpower. But the main thing is to have additional natural resources worth tens of trillions of dollars and manipulate them to achieve your goals
Now imagine that if the total value of the natural resources of Ukraine is 40 trillion dollars, then with a population of 40 million people, a million dollars per Ukrainian! And then - as in the anecdote: hypothetically we are all millionaires, but practically... But this is a completely different story.