When the US, France and Germany betrayed Russia on the signing of the Minsk Accords, Putin was said to be shocked, then dismayed at this betrayal. He hasn’t forgotten it and will do everything as Russian leader to protect the Russian people. They have suffered enough. Most westerners do not know that Russia lost 27 million people in WW2. In fact it was the Soviets that defeated the Nazis in Berlin. The country was destroyed. Then the collapse of the Soviet Union, heralded the formation of Russia. People still think the Soviet Union is still in existence- it’s not. Slowly Russia began to develop and bit by bit its people began to recover from the past horrors. Then another betrayal came. The Minsk Accords in 2014/15 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/22/ffci-d22.html It will be a long time before Putin trusts the west again.