Dmitri Medvedev, one of Vladimir Putin’s historic allies, revealed that one of the Kremlin’s objectives through the invasion of Ukraine is to “build an open Eurasia, from Lisbon to Vladivostok”.

The vice-president of the Russian National Security Council is one of the Russian president’s most trusted politicians.

In a lengthy message on Telegram, he reiterated that Russia’s mission in Ukraine is to “demilitarize and denazify” the country, tasks that “are not carried out overnight” and that “will not only be solved on the battlefield”. As he explained, it is necessary to change “the bloody consciousness full of false myths” of part of Ukrainians. And he closed with a much broader plan, with imperialist overtones: “The goal is peace for future generations of Ukrainians and the possibility of finally building an open Eurasia, from Lisbon to Vladivostok”.