When Russian military forces began moving into the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk following Putin’s orders, they began to regain a long-missed prize: Donbas
of the USSR’s vast output. The Donbas steel and iron industry declined through the 1990s and early 2000s but rebounded to producing 40% of Ukraine’s steel in 2013. USGS ranks Ukraine as the world’s second-largest holder of iron ore reserves , topped only by China according to published data from 2010.
With the partition of the Donbas the same year, many coal mines producing anthracite were lost to Ukraine. However, the country largely retained its Donbas-based coking coal mines . are filling with toxic groundwater, threatening contamination of drinking water from rivers and wells as well as the surrounding soil, making the land unfit for farming. Methane gas from mines is being pushed to the surface, threatening earthquakes and explosions.... [+]of the area remains the same strategic prize that Adolf Hitler recognized during World War Two.
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