Maybe the thug government could sell eastern Ukraine to Russia to pay for their fuel.
Comrade, you have it backwards. The Russians are the aggressors here and the thug government is Putin’s!!!
Russia owes Ukraine compensation for Crimea and for pirating the entire Ukrainian Navy. They are no position to the claim moral high ground.
Are you even trying to be objective?
Russia pays Ukraine to transport oil thru Ukrainian pipelines to Europe. Ukraine can raise the price of transport Russian.
A: no
The United States has a "Thug" government. Should we just allow Russia to take Alaska back because they got ripped off by Secretary Seward?
Russia has a much worse Thug Government than the Ukraine. Russia thug government is one of the worst both now and throughout the last 100 years.
Russia's thug govenment managed to murder about 10,000,000 Ukrainians when the thug was Stalin. Putin's moral compass is no more pure than Joseph Stalin's.
Back when the world had some measure of Freedom, economic deals tended to have BOTH sides agreeing to a price before the deal was made. Ahhhh, the good ol' days.