Especially if they're selling oil at $45/barrel when their break even is $54 and their new indebted global south customers are deferring and defaulting on their payments.

It'll be at least a generation before Ukraine allows Russians back across the border unless they come from an independent Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan or Bashkortostan.

The 1858 Russia-China treaty is just a piece of paper for both sides.