Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his country's military attack on Ukraine two years ago. Peter Bergen says Putin denied at the beginning of the war that Moscow had any expansionist temptations.
Medvedev defends that Russia has the right to a “strategic space,” which must be indivisible from Ukraine, he says. Bergen: The most concrete plans now draw a map of Europe without Ukraine, reduced to a city-state with limited powers. The former president said that his country will not stop the war until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky capitulates.