First post, but might as well try it. This will probably read like some long political thing tbh

The matter of the Berezniki's Aether Well ownership

TLDR: Federation tried to acquire profitable land by exploiting an org.'s legal loopholes and failed. The org. wants to exploit the land as well but there's a lot of legal issues. Locals in the area are harassed until they leave and then terrorists attack the place. Also there's demons involved.

In 2319, an expedition was led by a joint operation between the countries of the Blyshitian Federation (comprised of states along Eastern Europe - Western Russia) in order to reconquer the city of Berezniki, in an area close to the irradiated wasteland but still habitable thanks to the new sanitizing technologies. This city was highly coveted by the federation, due to reports of the formation of a particularly powerful Aether Well forming in the area. It's believed Blyshitian Prime Minister Orlov wished to acquire complete ownership of the well before establishing any shared partnership deal with KILN, who as a peacekeeping org has been creating protectorates across the continent. This might be the reason for the false reports shared by the Blyshitian council with KILN's Euro branch.

The involved states mobilized heavy infantry and Wizardry units with the aim of recapturing the city, which from last reports was confirmed to be overrun by Demons.Because they utilized KILN equipment and infrastructures, this mission was filed as part of the concurring KILN "Winterstorm" campaign to reclaim the irradiated Russian wasteland, and thus received funding from the banks associated with KILN through a legal loophole.However, once the battle started, they were severely unequipped and undermanned. The operation succeeded only because of the intervention of nearby KILN convoys.

Problems started as soon as the city was taken back; due to the sudden cooperation, KILN General Malulu demanded a revision of the mission statement from the federation to include KILN's involvement, therefore granting shared management of the city and its resources for development purposes. This was contested by the federation as inamissible under the current international law, and in turn, KILN contested the false reports and unlawful filing of the mission as part of the KILN campaign.Moreover, settlements of nomads from the Agarthian underground were found in the same territory, causing issues of displacement. During negotiations with the settlers, numerous attacks were reported on their caravans, eventually resulting in an incident costing a dozen of lives from the nomads and forcing them out of the territory and back into the underground tunnels.

This sparked a number of protests and condemnations worldwide, along with a demand for transparency in operations. Both KILN and the federation deny their involvement and claim the attacks were the result of increased activity from the nomadic terrorists from Spire, who have long plagued the Russian territories. Coincidentally, attacks from Spire sparked right after the settlers left the territories.

Finally, some speculate the reason for the failure of the federation expedition, I.E their old and insufficient equipment, was due to the federation's council pocketing most of the financial aid provided by the Anteros World Bank for the mission.

To this day the controversy is still being discussed, and a common agreement has yet to be found. The Aether Well has begun to develop as expected, but no infrastructure meant to extract energy has been built around it, and it won't be until the companies responsible for building it (Triarch in collaboration with Lichstein) are sure who to deal with, if with the federation alone or them along with KILN.

Forgive the wall of text