That has little to do with businesses running into ground by force. It has to do with your businessmen getting kickbacks from Europeans and Asians to purchase same equipment from overseas.

Simply put, your own people are causing this problem among the private business arena. Maybe Russia should go back to the idea of complete state run economy because private companies tend to be very corrupt and only operate based upon their own needs and not needs of whole country.

Edit: And the reason for increase in consumption in Ukraine for electric vehicles has entirely to do with lack of oil, lack of income to procure excess in oil and oil prices drastically increasing for them. So in the end, it becomes cheaper to buy Electric vehicles in Ukraine. Especially how the country is rather small and most travel within the cities, electric may make sense. Electric makes sense in Cities like Moscow, St.Pete or in Crimea area. But otherwise, rest of Russia is too far spread out and electric is very inefficient. Thus CNG powered should be the way to go.