Russia already captured Crimea and eastern Moldova. They need to capture south Ukraine and part of Romania/Bulgaria. As I see, Russians already making steps in that direction. For example, they creating fake national groups for smaller ethnic groups, e.g. for my ethnic group (I am Lemko, small Ukrainian subethnic group at west of Ukraine, east of Poland and Slovakia). To control us, they are inventing new language, new alphabet, created "World Congress of Lemko people", and so on, trying to separate us from Ukrainians.