This is overstating it. The actual stated posture is brazen enough not to need exaggeration, stated eg in this 2022 speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addres

This is overstating it. The actual stated posture is brazen enough not to need exaggeration, stated eg in this 2022 speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_concerning_the_events_in_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_concerning_the_events_... and the historical background written about here: https://theconversation.com/how-moscow-has-long-used-the-historic-kyivan-rus-state-to-justify-expansionism-178092 https://theconversation.com/how-moscow-has-long-used-the-his... (Soviet union included more states, like the stans)