supersabr, you're hopeless. Russians rised the price to European level, because Ukrainians wanted to be independent from Russia, live without Russia, as part of Europe. Now they got what they desired - independence, but there's a problem - they can't afford it. lol!

There're only two options in this world:
1. you can afford independence and you're independent.
2. you can't afford independence and you are not independent.

Options like
3. you can't afford independence, but you want to be independent so much that somebody should pay for your independence

are not allowed any more. So choose between 1 and 2.