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Thousand one hundred and sixty -fourth day. The transaction on the subsoil will begin to benefit only after 10–20 years. In addition to the war, investors will face many other obstacles
Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war. What feelings do you experience because of the ongoing war? How does it affect you personally right now? How has your attitude to what is happening, towards Russia, Ukraine, to the world changed over these three years of the war? Look for a feedback form at the end of this article. The review of the previous day can be read here .
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The transaction in the subsoil will begin to benefit no earlier than 10 years, and the ongoing war is only one of the obstacles to the profit to the benefit
The agreement on minerals between the United States and Ukraine, signed by the parties on April 30, will begin to benefit not earlier than 10 years - and probably much later, Reuters writes , citing expert estimates.
According to experts in the field of mining sector, the development of mines to extract strategically important minerals in countries with established industry (for example, Canada and Australia) may take from 10 to 20 years. In Ukraine, according to most mineral deposits, there are few data confirming their economic viability, the agency notes.
In this case, investors can refuse to inflict money into a country where the infrastructure is destroyed as a result of a three -year war, and future security is not guaranteed. “The reality is that it will be difficult for people to justify the investment there [in Ukraine], when there are options to invest in critical minerals in countries that are not at war,” says Adam Webb, head of the mineral resources department in the Benchmark Minerals Intelligence.
Another interlocutor of Reuters, Willis Thomas from the Cru CRU, notes that the transition from the discovered resource to the “economically viable reserve” requires significant time and investment - but even one was limited before the war, when Ukraine was “in no hurry” to issue new licenses for natural resources.
In Ukraine, despite the fact that financial benefit is still unclear, the deal was still perceived as a political breakthrough, writes Reuters. Ukrainian officials believe that it will help strengthen support from Washington. For the United States, the subsoil agreement, as the New York Times writes , can be an “unexpected success”, but the production of resources will be expensive, and any progress is unlikely, while the war is underway, the newspaper notes.
NYT calls the war that ongoing in Ukraine only one obstacle that must be overcome before the United States can get any potential profit from the transaction.
Another difficulty lies in the fact that maps of mineral deposits in Ukraine (including the territories occupied by Russia) are largely based on outdated research, and new surveys can take several years. According to Graislin Basqueran, director of the security of critically important minerals in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, after detecting a favorable deposit, it takes an average of 18 years to start prey.
Minus will require billions of dollars of investments, as well as the repair of energy infrastructure destroyed by shelling: it will have to be restored and modernized in order to provide a large amount of energy necessary to maintain mining, Nyt writes.
The US State Department was called the “amazing” deal, noting that it was holding an economic partnership between the United States and Ukraine. “This is not just a financial agreement. This is a connection between the two countries that will be important for the nation, especially in the situation with Ukraine - they have a friend. And in the rest of the world they know that when you have such a friend as the United States, and when we are doing business with you and your country, this strengthens national security for all participants, ” said Tammy Bruce, press secretary of the State Department.
War through the eyes of readers "Medusa"
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Barbara (Siberia). [... On the first day of a full -scale war] the illusion collapsed that I live in a civilized country, the leader of which, although a threatened bandit, is still adequate as a whole. No. Then she began to communicate with some relatives and acquaintances. And illusion number two collapsed that I am surrounded by reasonable, humane people, for whom this war is barbarism, crime and fascism. No. A woman who barely walks and lives after the fourth chemotherapy is suddenly filled with such a fury and hatred and literally -where the forces came from -shouts: “So it is necessary! These crests must be shot! They always hated us! " And my words that you can’t kill for this, that the world is not obliged to love us, that no one has caused us evil, drown in the stream of its malice. And I knew her for many years, considered a decent person.
Mother enthusiastically talks about her daughter’s girlfriend, who received a funeral seven million for her husband, bought a three -room apartment, and the money remained. I yell to my mother, but I can’t prove to her that you can’t build my well -being on someone else's death and grief. And that no apartment is worth the life of her husband. The third illusion is that for all human life above all, it collapses [...].
At the very beginning of the war, I believed that now the whole world would get into a fist and fuck. That the world understands that Ukraine is only the beginning, that Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia are the following. But Europe hesitates [...]. And it turns out that the rights are not the one on whose side is the truth, but the one who is worse and more cynical. This was perhaps the last illusion - that the world was just arranged. That good should win, and evil must be punished. I am 53 years old, I am sitting on the wreckage of my illusions - the girl has matured.
For many years I was a parishioner of the Catholic Church. But now she stopped going there. After all, the presence on the mass implies the sacrament, and it is possible after confession. And confession is impossible without sincere repentance. But I go to bed with the thought "at least die." And in the morning I first read the news in the hope that he died. And I do not want to repent of this. Now, when all the illusions collapsed, hatred is my supporting structure, I just break up without it, because there is nothing left again [...].