It’s true, but I read it as limited to “West forced Ukraine” claim, implying West’s exclusive influence here. But earlier they wrote the following:
Further, such monocausal accounts elide completely a fact that, in retrospect, seems extraordinary: in the midst of Moscow’s unprecedented aggression, the Russians and the Ukrainians almost finalized an agreement that would have ended the war and provided Ukraine with multilateral security guarantees, paving the way to its permanent neutrality and, down the road, its membership in the EU.
I think this “almost finalized an agreement that would have ended the war” was a far stretch interpretation by Radchenko and Charap which was unsupported by neither documents nor the events. Unfortunately, it also plays into the Russian narrative, which is why their article caused so much outrage.