Alexi Navalny dead., page-147

No, nuclear weapon is a deterrent. No-one is going to invade a country who has access to them. Putin took advantage of post pandemic (hence the Manifesto he published in July 2021) as the thought there's no way the EU would support Ukraine given their reliant on energy from Russia especially after a global pandemic but once they did then the US declared their as long as it take and then Putin loss.