Other than bombing civilians for a decade and sending neonazi terrorists to harass and murder them and attempting to join an aggressive military alliance that was created to encircle and destroy their neighbor, sure, they didn't do anything to provoke it.

It's one thing to think Ukraine is the "better" side on balance but to claim that they didn't do anything to provoke an attack just shows that you don't know anything about what's been going on in the region.