:: Maybe he knew the signal had been given to release the next bio weapon (cholera, bubonic plague) right on his border. ::
If RUS/Putin did NOT make his incursion into Ukraine we would have never known about the labs at the time of the release.
That incursion both stopped the next viral release AND exposed the Clown Brigade’s plan.
And, eliminated the expected “blame Russia” narrative for when the virus was released/leaked/oops-ed in a UKR farmer’s market down the road from a lab.