Yeah, but it blundered by pretending to be the U.S. and not committing enough people to the operation.
175,000-200,000 troops is not enough to invade a country the size of Ukraine and conduct phase III/IV/V operations. We proved that in OIF and the Russians are re-learning that lesson with a more determined and capable enemy in the Ukraine war. The Russians needed a force at least 3x that large, probably 5x that large, to have a more positive outcome (ref: 3:1 thumbrule). I think Putin was arrogant enough to think that the ethnic Russians in Ukraine would act as a force multiplier, which in hindsight was a huge strategic blunder.
For reference, Operation Balbarossa had 2,800,000 axis troops committed (including 600,000 horses...which isn't relevant to anything except being a kinda funny concept in modern warfare).