Asmita Prasad: perhaps you did not read the papers in the last year, but Ukraine did not buy any gas from Russia in 2015. And if Russia had not kidnapped Crimea, Ukraine would be well on the way to developing natural gas deposits in the Black Sea that were already explored by 2014 by a consortium that included Exxon. The territory between Sloviansk and Kharkiv was targeted by Putin for similar reasons: there’s a huge shale gas field running between the two cities. You might consider learning a little more about this region before making snarky remarks.