By the way today I saw a video which is an extract from a TV commercial that was run on Ukrainian TV, (are you readyfor it?), in 1997. In this TV commercial 2 young guys avertise some kind of a new computer game whereby the gamers play a war game with Abrams tanks. In this war Ukraine is occupied by occupiers from Russia.
This proves that CIA has been working on this project since the beginning of 90-ies. They knew and planned a war between Russia and Ukraine in 1997 and they started preparing the young population of Ukraine for this war almost 30 years ago.
I also remember a simple game of naval battle, where Ukraine and Russia are fighting each other in the Black Sea. It turns out that this game was created by a resident of Sarov in the Russian Federation, Vadim Bashurov, back in 1992. Then can we assume that Russia was planning to attack Ukraine even before the game you’re talking about appeared in 1997?
https://news.obozrevatel.com/show/lite/v-igre-iz-90-h-morskoj-boj-uvideli-predskazanie-vojnyi-mezhdu-rossiej-i-ukrainoj.htm#:~:text=% D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F%2C%20%D0% B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%20%D0%B2%201992%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83,%D1%80%D0%BE%D0 %B4%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D1 %80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%20%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0.
However, most likely this is just a coincidence.
Putin already reminded NATO since the 90s not to extend to the east every time they add nations to NATO that are around Russia. they do have an agreement with Gorbachev at that time regarding the extension of NATO. still, Putin was a bit patient that time until Ukraine was about to join.
there has been news recently that Russia's fleet is going to Cuba by the way, i have no idea why Putin will be going there but this is definitely going to make things worse. he must have been fed up that US missiles were hitting Russia's territory.