Not true, and particularly ironic coming from the Ukrainian invader.
No, actually totally true.
The problem with all this “unprovoked” and “aggressor” language crap is that everyone plays the same game.
They choose some starting point to define when a conflict started and exclude what preceded this, in order to make it appear someone is an “aggressor,” that an invasion or attack is “unprovoked.”
It’s a game where rhetoric, language itself, is used to pretend there is a good and bad side to an argument, and we don’t like it when it’s done to us.