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Woman is likely an innocent victim ...

Anyway to digress...the reason why Russian invade and annex Ukraine  is explained here by Dugin in this 2017 interview. The idea originated from his book in 1990s. It has nothing to with NATO but the ambition to restore Russia as a super power.

Using NATO is just a pretext excuse to shift the blame.

PAP does that all the time as does other countries ruling parties,big fish eat small fish