As you point out, to the extent the mainstream narrative acknowledges the past at all, it’s to frame it as “Russia actually invaded in 2014 and are now trying to finish the job.”
There’s certainly no acknowledgement of NATO expansion being a legitimate concern for Russia, or the violence against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, or Ukraine not abiding by the terms of the Minsk agreements (much less comments from the West that those agreements were bad faith documents designed only to buy time).
As you point out, to the extent the mainstream narrative acknowledges the past at all, it’s to frame it as “Russia actually invaded in 2014 and are now trying to finish the job.”
There’s certainly no acknowledgement of NATO expansion being a legitimate concern for Russia, or the violence against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, or Ukraine not abiding by the terms of the Minsk agreements (much less comments from the West that those agreements were bad faith documents designed only to buy time).