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@Crom Valen,

Putin doesn’t not want the Ukrainian natural gas or unproven shale gas. The known natural gas reserves amount to only 3% of the Russian known natural gas reserves.

What Putin does not want is Shell, Chevron and other Western oil and gas companies digging around. They left in 2014 ( after signing multibillion dollar deals with the Ukrainian government only a year before) due to the instability in the east of the country. Goal achieved.