One of the most serious problems nowadays is that people often get one-sided information on the problem and can't judge about it properly. When discussing these sort of problems you must carefully study the history of russian-ukrainian relationships. I believe that it's not just a commercial squabble, as far as i know naftogaz(ukrainian gas company) shut down the pipe and started to steal gas insted of transporting it to europe. After that it broke the agreement and demanded to lower the price(from 250$ to 150$ per sth, sth like that)for comparison europe pays 450$ for the same quantity.
And also, as far as i know, ukraine has a debt to pay out to russia. So everything is not as easy as you think. Ukraine isn't in a helpless situation. it's very hard to explain, so i advise you to read more and just look at the events from both sides.
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