Yeah grain exports will make them rich, and those “many tons of iron” sure sound impressive... kinda... not really.
Nice snark but you are uninformed. The largest steel mill in terms of finished steel in the Soviet Union is located in Ukraine it is now owned by Arcelor Mittal. The largest open pit iron mine in Europe is there too. Ukrainian agriculture feeds a large segment of Europe and a very big part of North Africa. Absent their corruption issues and they are doing better they would be an economic power house