Wait, first you claimed Putin said many times that he wants to conquer eastern Europe, and now you say the Russians are (falsely) claiming they don't want to conquer eastern Europe, and that I am repeating this lie of theirs. Which is it? Do they claim to want to conquer eastern Europe, or not?
Putin is not lying when he fabricates historic claims and of howls about how Russia has been victimized - this delusion is his honest believe. But Russians lie when they say that they don't want to attack any other countries. Just how Putin lied when they said that they are not going to violently attack Ukraine.
However; strategic ambiguity is part of Russian hybrid warfare. Just see how it went in Ukraine.
First they said they don't have any interest in Ukraine, that Ukraine is sovereign. Then the Russians invade Crimea, while claiming that the "green men" are not Russian soldiers. Then they tacitly admit that some Russian soldiers might have been involved. Then they brag about how they took Crimea.
Same same in the Donbas.
Meanwhile Putin is playing the victim card and making claims on all and every territory that once was the Rus' dominion, even though the "Russian Federation" itself has little to do with the Rus' of Kyiv or Ruritania or Galicia.
All the while his mouthpieces are both threatening the whole of Europe with nuclear fire and "de-nazification".
I don't what Russia is aiming at. In my eyes the whole country has gone mad with a fatal case of imperial delusion that will only end with the nation itself, similar to how the 3rd Reich only died with Nazi Germany.
What I do know is that anyone repeating any Russian claims is an imperialistic useful idiot.
It comes with the territory.