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It amazes me that, even 3 and a half years into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it still isn't fully explained why Russia invaded Ukraine, and why at this precise time in Feb 2022. Among the other reasons alreaddy cited, this video speculates that the overwhelming majority of Russia's economy (about 70%) is from fossil fuels, oil and natural gas. And that Europe in particular is shifting to a battery/lithium based alternative to what is Russia vital fossil fuel based economy.

And that Ukraine has about 10% of the global reserves of lithium deposits, and the EU was on the cusp of signing a huge deal with Ukraine to extract those reserves. So Russia was about to simultaneously lose a vast amount of their national fossil fuel revenue, and also simultaneously lose Ukraine politically to the EU.
And on top of that, Ukraine was positioning to take away Russia's ability to sell is own lithium deposits to the EU nations.

Among other factors, such as Putin's obsession with re-building the Soviet empire and re-claiming what he terms Russia's former "near abroad" territories (specifically Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania., and Kazakhstan) .
Add to that the loss of Russia's puppet leader (Yanukovich ) in 2014 and the loss of Russian influence over Ukraine, that even under pro-Russian leaders, the Ukraine population was increasingly desiring to leave Russian influence and partner economically and politically with the EU.

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It's not as absolutely certain as the video's title makes it out to be,.but it's a solid fact-based theory for Russia's timing of the invasion in Feb 2022.

I would further add the press conference Biden held in early 2022 as the deciding moment, where Biden was asked whether he would intervene militarily if Russia invaded Ukraine.
Biden said "Well, I guess maybe not if it was just a small invasion..."

And combined with the massive and embarassing failed U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we left our allies to be slaughtered, and 13 U.S. Marines were killed as the planes were leaving Baghram airport, Putin saw his moment. That the U.S. would do nothing to stop Putin, so Putin ordered the invasion.
And just 3 weeks later Putin invaded. Puin was prepared to go in for several months, but that was the green light signal that Puttin told his generals: "Go."