Simple answer: yes. Don't make it out to be more complicated than it really is. Putin had said for years that he thought it was a mistake for Lenin to recognize Ukraine's right to independence. He just waited for a period of U.S. weakness under Biden to correct that mistake.
Regardless, there remain too many who still want more blood.
The only ones who are pushing for more blood are the Russians and their supporters. Russia goes home and this all stops. It really is that simple.
Of course, it’s a Civil War. There is no history of Ukraine, being an independent country, most the people speak Russian. It’s been part of the Soviet Union for 70 years and the fallout from the Soviet Union is still not over, as in the Ukraine. It’s none of our concern, anybody that thinks it is, should go there and help, not post their BS and propaganda here and this says nothing about whether Russia is good or bad, or whether Ukraine is good or bad. It should be noted, though that Ukraine has canceled elections, canceled, political parties, canceled, religious groups, and is now gelled ahead of their largest religious denomination great track record for somebody that people want to defend.