@mykhaylo Ah yes, all the areas that contain a lot of oil and natural gas, according to relatively recent surveys, but which Ukraine wasn't able to exploit by itself yet. Ukraine partly depended on importing Russian oil and gas, which made Russia quite a lot of rubles.
Of course this was never about ethnic Russians being discriminated by Ukraine. There are probably also valuable natural resources available in other countries with "discriminated ethnic Russians"... 🙄