“Putin was not going to stop with Ukraine. He was planning on rebuilding the old Soviet Union”
Link please.
No one has an obligation to provide you with links. You can find the information yourself.
No link, but, it’s easy to guess what Putin has been up to when he consistently hinted that, he would reconstitute the Soviet Union. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that his plans included countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union.