I never ignored the market rate for gas.
My original post on this matter was addressed to WhiskeyX, who said (amongst other things in post #8): "international laws regarding coercive and unreasonable non-market pricing of such goods...." (My bolding.) From that, I drew the reasonable inference that WhiskeyX was saying that Russia was trying to force Ukraine to pay non-market prices for the gas.
The only point I was ever trying to make is that the new price Russia is demanding is the market price of gas in Europe, and that simple fact cannot be simply ignored. I completely agree that contracts and international law cannot be ignored. Not having seen those contracts; I wouldn't presume to argue whether or not they've been violated. As I said, those are not simple facts -- they are the types of things that make lawyers rich.