Well, this was all hatched with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Joe Biden as VP. The energy pipeline to Europe went through Ukraine. Remember Victoria Nuland giving snacks out to the members of the Ukraine protests? And next the revolution?
So Russia decided to make the delivery another way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
Nuland was the lead U.S. point person for the Ukrainian crisis, establishing loan guarantees to Ukraine,
Biden always has a point person for his dots all over the world.