And don't think Russia doesn't know that.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/29/russia-indicates-withdrawal-in-position-from-ukraine-capital-kyiv/

At this point it looks as though Russia is not the bad guy the American media is making him out to be.  We'll have to wait and see, I guess.  We all may have misread this from the beginning.  But Putin needs to SAY that, not just tiptoe around.  At this point no one really knows what the hell to believe, but I know for sure that Ukraine has been used and abused by the rich people from countries all over the world for the past 40 years.  That's pretty obvious.