For the last 20 years Ukrainian politics were playing the same game with Russia over and over. Its rules were simple: "You like us and give us cheap (if not free) resources and we stay your friends, but if you don't, we'll sail away to some other place and you'll regret this loss of respect from your brother nation".
For the last 10 years, our politics used to answer something like "Okay then, go. Go where you like. Just go already. Just don't forget to pay for the gas".
And so Ukraine constantly tries to proudly go away and constantly returns for yet another drama. Just like now.
The stupidest thing is that this everlasting dialogue is held mostly between politics and energy corporations rather than actual nations. Many of us have relatives in Ukraine (I got several cousins there), and it's kinda sad that we have to file additional documents just to meet each other in person.