As Russia's war on Ukraine rages on, it stands to gain trillions of dollars in mineral and resources if it takes over the country — or even just hangs on to territory it has seized so far. Ukraine has huge deposits of lithium, in particular, a key mineral for batteries powering electric cars or smartphones.

0:00 Are Ukraine’s deposits of lithium a reason for Russia's war?
2:01 Gracelin Baskaran, Director of the Project on Critical Minerals Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
7:44 Olivia Lazard, Fellow at Carnegie Europe and expert on geopolitics
11:57 Andrei Covatariu, Energy expert and co-founder of ECERA
16:05 Ulrich Blum, Founder and CEO of the German Lithium Institute and expert on economic warfare

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