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.
I think it was part of the plan from Russia and they really prepared everything,
it seems that it is indeed Russia's plan to pressure European countries that will impose sanctions,
after all we can see that this war is very complex and we will see how far this war will go