If you mean Donbass etc. yes in part....why wouldn’t it? But It’s all the other drills and supplying planeloads of military equipment and Nato troops drills which would indicate a threat to Russia - particularly after Nato members refused to address Putins concerns which he raised consistently....
Rather like when Russia was putting heavy armament in Cuba that we wouldn’t stand for and didn’t.
And yet we gave up bases in Turkey in exchange for a few less misfiles
Russia funded and armed the sandanistas