by financing political parties in all of EU countries and making them push Russia agenda and now seems doing the same thing even in US, invading anyone who wants to join EU and shares border with Russia and about 100000 other ways, what's with these pointless questions? you are asking about this like this would be something new, literally going on since collapse of Soviet Union. Russia wants more land and more power, that is all there is to it, what they got will never be enough and they got EU on a leash so as long as they don't start an open official war with actual EU country they can do whatever they want. Russia has nothing to lose here, nothing, country full of poor people controlled by oligarchs that have fed them nothing but lies and propaganda for generations. People are still going on for the ride, even after collapse of Soviet Union people just forget mind blowing incompetence and stupidity and move on, they want system to come back because past is good and beautiful and change is evil and bad.

Nationalism needs to come back so people can witness the impossible utopia that never existed and never will exist, it's a fairy tale for fools. Maybe if Russia could kill all the gays or Muslims or Jews or some other random group of people that would make world a perfect place and human nature would suddenly change. Imagine world speaking in one language, having same values, a perfect system, this is what Putin thinks he is going for, another impossible utopia, this is also why he won't stop, dream is so beautiful no amount of bloodshed or wars or bribes will be enough. Everyone who wants to stop him from making word perfect surely is an enemy, EU just by existing is delaying Russia destiny that's why it needs to be dismantled, divide and conquer, create fighting, keep pushing terrorist threat and downsides of EU membership, create fear and distrust and appeal to people chasing beautiful past that never existed.