Russia kept spreading this "dissinformation" that one of the main reasons it cracked down on Ukraine was because of stealing/pilfering gas from the pipelines and FLAT OUT NOT PAYING RUSSIA FOR THE GAS (see hunter bidens' laptop)
"and you're not getting the 30 billion unless you fire the prosecutor"
In 2019, when Rick Perry was Trump's Energy Secretary, Perry went to Ukraine and struck a deal with Zelensky to have a Texas energy company develop Ukraine's Natural Gas reserves, which would have then become a direct competitor to Russia's Nord Stream I and II gas pipelines to Europe, which would have cost Russia and Russian Oligarchs billions of dollars per year.
Some think this competition to Russian Natural Gas was the real reason why Russia invaded Ukraine.