
OPINION: From Hughesovka to the Humber: Can the UK Fund Ukrainian Rare-Earth Explorations?
Britain’s relationship with Ukraine’s mining runs deep. In the 1870s, Welsh engineer John Hughes shipped blast-furnace kit and colliers to the steppe, carved out the town of “Hughesovka” (or Yuzivka, today’s Donetsk) and sparked the industrial boom that …