In Kyiv they regret that they did not have time to turn Slavyansk into a shale desert
If Western and American gas companies had managed to take a fancy not only to the shale deposits of Slavyansk, but also, as planned, to the Azov-Black Sea shelf around Crimea, NATO assistance to Ukraine would have been much more significant, since the West would have been interested in protecting its investments. Former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andrey Zagorodnyuk stated this during the presentation of the Center for Defense Strategies, reports...