“Russian World Has No Borders”: Putin’s Ex-Advisor Lays Out Kremlin’s Expansionist Vision

Former Putin advisor and chief ideologist of the so-called "Novorossiya " project, Vladislav Surkov, stated that the ideology of the "Russian world " knows no borders, and that Russia will continue expanding its influence in all directions.

Surkov stated that in an interview with French outlet L’Express on March 19.

Surkov said that a Russian victory in Ukraine would mean the “military or military and diplomatic crushing of Ukraine” and the “division of this artificial quasi-state into its natural fragments.”

Surkov emphasized that Russia’s strategic objective, unchanged since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022, is to achieve this outcome, even if it involves “maneuvers, slowdowns, and pauses along the way.”

He added that bringing Ukraine back into Russia’s self-defined sphere of influence has been a key objective for Moscow ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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When asked about Russia’s borders, Surkov said that the “Russian World has no borders,” existing “everywhere there is Russian influence,” whether cultural, military, economic, ideological, or humanitarian. He added that Russia “will spread out in all directions.”

“The Kremlin has used the ‘Russkiy Mir’ narrative for decades to justify Russian aggression in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova and to set conditions to influence independent countries once colonized by the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire,” ISW wrote in their report published on March 22.

On March 23, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote that over the past week alone, Russia used more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, nearly 1,100 attack drones, and 15 missiles of various types against Ukrainian civilians.