A good step from russia to pressure europe, because of its high dependence on russian gas, russia dared to attack ukraine, and now russia is asking for payment in rubles so that europe will have to follow these rules or they will lose gas supply.
Regardless of whether or not what is being done, Russia is really clever in taking advantage of the existing situation,
they knew what they had to do so the pressure turned on Europe,
clearly I hope this war can end soon and Ukrainian civilians really suffer because of this