This was stated by Defense Committee member Viktor Sobolev.
"The complete fulfillment of the goals of the special military operation is the creation of a single union state: Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus", - dreams the retired general. In his opinion, Ukrainians and russians are one people, and russia must "protect its russian world".
As previously reported, putin first mentioned the idea of including Ukraine in some kind of union state back in 2001 during a meeting with Alexander Lukashenko and then-president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.