Ukraine's minerals are nothing comparing to Russia's. It doesn't make sense that Russia wants more minerals when their current minerals can't be mined due to their limited resources of engineering & technology and labor. Also, mining minerals is a thin-margin profit business. It won't make much money. So, if you have enough minerals in your land, why bother to take others ? As neocon Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under Clinton once said, you Russuans have too much resources. It's unfair to the rest of World.
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