If you think this is an example of whataboutism, you're braindead.

What was said was that Russia had committed genocide and this was the justification for the US-led transnational nuclear military of NATO to expand. The logic, of course, is that Europe needs the USA to protect it from genocidal countries like Russia. But the USA is more genocidal than Russia, so it becomes a problematic justification to say that the USA commits genocide more often, more violently, and more effectively but that's preferable to Russia committing genocide less often, less violently, and less effectively.

Whataboutism is when the USA commits genocide and then everyone ignores it and says "What about Chechnya?"