In Ukraine the match is not just politics. The "cold war" between the USA and Russia is also played out with the blows of economic interests. Washington is in fact ready to export shale gas to compensate for the turning off of the taps by Vladimir Putin, who strategically aims to annex Crimea, announcing a referendum in record time (voting immediately, on March 16) which the EU and the United States already readily defined as illegal.
In this regard, the EU has threatened visa restrictions and trade sanctions, but Putin does not stop there: the Kremlin in fact takes control of the Russian division of the largest Ukrainian bank. However, the US is not standing idly by: Ukraine owns important shale gas plants, an energy resource on which the American country is betting strongly and which it could actually produce and sell to Kiev in the event that Moscow decides to suspend supplies to the Ukraine and consequently to Europe.
