No doubt the Russians were doing that, and the Ottomans were aware. It’s the “therefore let’s kill all Armenians” part that is not justified. Likewise, the Ottomans used the Russian birthplace of many Ashkenazik Jews in Israel to attempt to expel every last Jew in Israel. Naturally, the Jews then fought on the side of the British to instead undermine and drive out the Ottomans.
This wholesale collective punishment thing simply backfired on the Ottomans in the case of the Jews. But since Russia lost WW I, their intrigues with the Armenians back-fired on the Armenians, who were slaughtered en masse. But they were not to blame. The Turks were.
I was not trying to either absolve or lay blame on any party.
The Russian element was simply an element that has been generally absent (among others) from what was in reality a complex set of events - the withering of the Ottoman empire and establishment of the state of Turkey within the context of late 19th and early 20th century European wars; and the “Armenian issue” within that larger context.