Russia attacked Ukraine as a defense, to prevent the attack of Ukraine from overthrowing Russia.
You are unable to see your own contradiction?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/attack here is the definition of the word attack.
You would make the war seem unimportant through the use of semantics? That looks like an attack on me, personally, rather than a piece of war talk.
It's like, "if you can't outsmart their understanding, pick on them any other way you can."
Meanwhile, Russia keeps on successfully defending the people of the Black Sea Corridor, Ukraine's own people that Ukraine was trying to kill off... which was the real start of the war.
