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1. Kremlin says a lot of things so probably they also said Ukraine could join EU. The night before the full scale invasion they claimed they had no intention of attacking Ukraine.

2. Ukraine has the right to join whatever alliance it wants regardless of what russia means.

They very much are not. See the invasion in 2014 when Ukraine was not seeking to join NATO Ukraine tried to join NATO after the Russian invasion in 2014 but was not seeking to join it beforehand. Pro Russian propaganda frequently pretends the timeline was different then they actually was so they can flip cause and effect.

>Somewhat surprisingly they are OK with Ukraine joining the EU [1].

So this makes sense to me. Basically I think it is US that Russia sees as a threat (because may be US seen Russia as a major threat and wants to break it up).