Would Russia been as aggressive if Ukraine still had it’s?

The war is directly linked to the cold war, so it’s pointless to talk what would have happend if the cold war would have ended differently.

But let’s assume the political situation would have been the same and just the stockpile of old sovjet weapons was gone: I’d say yes, they would have been just as aggressive in the beginning. After all the didn’t really intended to be relying on their old stockpile at the start.