Unfortunately, Putin is using any NATO action to interpret it against Ukraine. NATO does not want to take us - of course, who needs us but Russia, only Russia can protect us, so let's make sure that only with Russia we can survive and coexist.
NATO is hinting they might take us - Russia sees this as a complete carte blanche to start a full-scale war, because of course, NATO will immediately give us tons of weapons and start producing nuclear weapons in my country for the sole purpose of erasing Russia from the world map.
To anyone capable of rational thinking, it sounds absurd and even ridiculous if it weren't so sad. However, this is the delusion that has been feeding the Russian people for decades. And they don't see anything at all except what a bunch of inadequate people tell them on TV.
I am glad even a Ukrainian can understand this whole war this way. The more one tends to follow the issue as it unfolds, the more you tend to get a clear picture why its all going down the way its going. The sad news is, Ukraine seem to have have the one caught in this whole propaganda of NATO and US politics. I saw a phrase somewhere and it states "who wouldn't react or respond should an enemy lin over your neighbours wall and aims a gun at your head ".
The agreement that ensured between NATO and the former Soviet Union which is chiefly Russia was that, NATO won't move an inch close to Russia and somehow, NATO have breached that agreement by sorting further expansion. The sad news is, NATO is a body and not some boundary bounded nation and as such, Russia directed its war towards the supposedly newest member.
I don't in anyway support violence or shading of blood but, words of agreements should be honored. Its our best chance to building a civilised world. It's my hope that peace do return to both these nations real soon!