Because the war started in 2014 when a US (CFR)-backed coup changed the government there. I know the mainstream and CFR-compliant media timeline has been erased and now starts from February 2022, but many things happened before that.
At the geopolitical level, the Russian intervention is so far a defensive move in response to 20 years of NATO expansion in Eastern Europe. At the military level, yes it's an invasion, similar to the US invasions︀ of Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Iraq in 2003, Serbia in 1999, Afghanistan in︁ 2001, Libya 2011 and Syria 2014