Mariya Vynnytska

Psychologist | Program Director at Renovaré SG 🇸🇬 | Co-Founder of the NGO THE SOUL 🇺🇦 | Helping People and Teams Find Clarity, Confidence and Solutions through Therapy, Training and Coaching

Renovaré Pte Ltd

Ukraine

Dec 23, 2025

Behind the Kremlin’s fog of “historical unity” and “protecting Russian speakers” lies a cold, calculated truth: This is a war of colonial plunder and systematic genocide.

As we reach Day 1,399 of this full-scale invasion, it is time to call this “special operation” what it actually is: a multi-trillion dollar heist designed to bankroll a collapsing empire and erase a sovereign nation.

📍 The Math of Occupation

Russia isn’t “saving” people; it is seizing the periodic table. By occupying Ukrainian lands, Russia is weaponizing resources vital to the 21st-century global economy:

🔺 Energy Dominance: If Ukraine loses the Donbas, Russia will control 67% of Ukraine’s coal reserves.

🔺 The Battery War: Ukraine holds one of the largest lithium deposits in Europe — enough to power 20 million electric vehicles. Two of the four major deposits are currently under Russian occupation.

🔺 The Microchip Race: Of the 37 critical minerals essential for semiconductors and high-tech batteries, 8 are located in occupied territories, including tantalum, niobium, and cesium.

🔺 The $15 Trillion Prize: Estimates suggest that over $15 trillion worth of mineral wealth lies beneath Ukrainian soil. Russia wants to transition from a “gas station” to a “battery station,” using stolen Ukrainian minerals to blackmail the West.

📍 A Centuries-Old Pattern

This economic theft is the engine, but genocide is the method. For centuries, Russia has attempted to dismantle the Ukrainian identity through artificial famines (the Holodomor), mass deportations, and the systematic execution of our intelligentsia.

Today, the playbook remains the same:

❌ Stealing the Future: Thousands of Ukrainian children have been kidnapped to military camps to be turned against their own people.

❌ Erasure of Identity: To Russia, a Ukrainian who refuses to be “Russian” is an obstacle that must be removed — either by a missile or by forced assimilation.

📍 The Global Choice

For Ukraine, the Donbas and the South are not just “territories” or “raw materials.” They are our home, our identity, and our economic lifeline.

For the world, this isn’t just a regional conflict. It is a test of whether we will allow an aggressor to redraw borders through mass murder and resource theft. If Russia profits from this genocide, no nation’s resources — or borders — are safe.

This Christmas, as we look at the ruins, we see more than destroyed buildings. We see a defiant nation standing between the world and a return to the dark ages of imperial conquest.

Please stand with Ukraine. Not just for our freedom, but for a future where humanity is not for sale.

StandWithUkraine #EndGenocide #StopRussia

Comment from :

Yvan Stoclet

Associate Director / Collaborative Innovation Lead Facilitator en YS

History and identity serve as the cover story; liquidation is the objective.

Land is turned into leverage, people into obstacles. Erasure is not excess, it is efficiency. Remove the people and the claims disappear with them. This is the instinct of a declining empire that can no longer compete and instead steals the future. Cities are flattened, children deported, resources seized not as collateral damage, but as the predominant business model.

The global test is unavoidable. If plunder pays, borders become provisional and genocide turns transactional. If it fails, this logic collapses here. Ukraine is not only defending its sovereignty. It is forcing a verdict on whether imperial theft still has a place in the 21st century.