Finance
In taking Ukraine, Putin would gain a strategic commodities powerhouse
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Please log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free Account Vladimir Putin has justified Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine as a defence of “Russia’s strategic bottom line,” but Ukraine’s vast stores of natural resources, from gas and ore to critical rare earth minerals and agricultural …