Yes because Russia isn’t always looking for justification for war.
There are multiple countries in Eastern Europe that likely would no longer be independent without NATO. My own home among them.
Neighbours that aren’t in an alliance seem to get invaded. Georgia first, now Ukraine twice.
Russia always finds a genocide or whatever to justify military action. Both Georgia and Ukraine were mentioned as targets all the way back in 1997.





Wagner group alone is a neonazi organization that had tens of thousands of members just a few years ago, an order of magnitude more than the famous Azov brigade. And it’s literally named after Hitler’s favourite composer.
Neonazis are only an issue for Putin when they can be used as justification for war. Otherwise, they don’t matter.