Interesting. If I understand correctly, you believe an appropriate response by Russia would be to launch a nuclear attack by Russia. Nice touch with the boy in the photograph. Outside of Russia and the Middle East, threatening nuclear Armageddon is not viewed positively.
The winner writes the history, the morality, and the rules.
Probably would be more of Ukraine must repair the line they will claim they didn’t damage, and deliver the power they have contracted and are paid well for, or else I would expect the Russian gas spigot gets turned off, in November.
No one is threatening to nuke Kiev about this.
For all the hysterics about Russia invading Ukraine, they never moved outside assisting the area that didn’t support the Nazi coup. When you throw a coup, its childish to think you automatically fall heir to everything the old country held. In a coup, you only get what you can grab by force. Others in the old nation state have just as much right to separate and establish a new entity, as the people taking the government by force have.