I mean there’s the Wagner Group very conspicuously using a German name despite being Russian and familiar skull design acting as a paramilitary organization in Russia’s “liberation” activities. [1]
There’s the fact 90% of Ukraine was completely peaceful just a month ago other than Russian funded “separatists” in the east constantly stirring things up. [2]
Russia claimed the whole Crimea operation was soldiers on vacation until they started blowing the place up and seized it. [3]
And Russia’s detraction from its own issues is so well known it has a wiki article. [4]