what the justification was IDK. But this was one of their states objectives.
***Oh, that’s easy. In 2012 there were vast reserves of oil & natural gas found in Ukraine. And lookie-here-guess-what, the Russians invaded THOSE areas.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
I wrote about that in a post several days ago. They probably want their own oil companies developing the oil and gas fields instead of European companies.
But this is different than a justification to breech the agreement.