Putin has been very clear about his position since that Bucharest summit declaration of NATO to invite Georgia and Ukraine to join them in 2008.

He made it clear that they don't want any foreign military on their border and will wreck Ukraine before they let the west take it. Still, the NATO kept expanding itself eastwards.

Then they toppled the Ukraine government in 2014 and put their puppet as the president who kept trying to pick a fight and poke at Russia (probably on orders of his masters) and when it all came back to bite them in the arse when Putin finally invaded, they are now trying to shift the blame elsewhere and India seemed like a soft target. Too bad India isn't taking them seriously, we don't need these overlords to rule us anymore.