[CharlieFinch]

Ukraine supplies 90% high grade semiconductor global neon from it's iron ore mines. https://venturebeat.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-supplies-90-perce...

Key iron ore mine locations have been ''annexed'' by recent Russian invasion - Crimea, etc. in a pincer like strategic configuration. Please see map

https://www.mining-technology.com/projects/shymanivske-iron-...

Ninety per cent of neon production is in Russia and Ukraine.[43] As of 2020, the company Iceblick, with plants in Odessa and Moscow, supplies 65 per cent of the world's production of neon, as well as 15% of the krypton and xenon.[44][45]

Neon gas is extracted as a byproduct of iron smelting from neon rich iron ore.