Russia’s interest in the matter is more focused on its traditional Great Game with Britain and offsetting U.S./U.K. influence with Middle East oil producers.
Russia, under KGB Putin, is in the process of restoring the lost evil empire. In order to finance this costly endeavor they obviously need huge amounts of cash. This is one of the primary reasons why they moved into the gas/oil-rich Middle East.
One of their guys in the Ukraine owned the largest gas company in that country. Don't know if he still does or not. In any case, it's the same company that Joe Biden's son, Hunter, worked for and made millions from (Burisma).
In addition, thanks to the Obama-Biden-Hillary admin, Russia was permitted to grab control of a whopping 20% of our uranium production, via their treasonous Uranium-One deal with Putin.
BTW-Russia and the ChiComs have never had a closer military and economic alliance than they do today. They've been staging massive joint war games since 2005. They CLAIM the purpose is to "counter terrorism". Meanwhile the type and scale of the exercises clearly indicate that the purpose is preparation for war with us and our allies.