> Ukraine is piss poor compared to Russia. Yes comrade, Russia is bigger and has a lot of oligarchs so off course there's much more money there, but average ci

> Ukraine is piss poor compared to Russia. Yes comrade, Russia is bigger and has a lot of oligarchs so off course there's much more money there, but average citizens are piss poor. Russian elites has been robbing Ukraine for three decades with their Kremlin buddy oligarchs like Medvedchuk, and not just Ukrainian oligarchs a lot of Russian ones were quite cozy there even after 2014. They robbed eastern part of Ukraine after ceasing control over the territory. It proved to be difficult to rob whole of Ukraine with just the dirty oligarchs, so they proceeded with full scale invasion in 2022.