Firstly, in the short term, Russia seeks to maintain the so-called "controlled escalation" in Donbas, he said.
"The second goal of the medium-term plan is to launch a flywheel of federalization in Ukraine in order to divide and eventually ruin our country," Yeliseyev said.
Read alsoRussian Foreign Ministry sees no consensus on "road map" on DonbasAnd the long-term goal is based on the well-known Russian president's phrase that the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the collapse of the Soviet Union.
"Note, [Vladimir Putin says] it was not World War I and not World War II, but the collapse of the Soviet Union... Of course, his goal remains in place – to restore a new Soviet Union in some form, and Ukraine is the "sweetest piece of pie", he added.
