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Russia was preparing for 'purges' in Ukraine, — RUSI
The military-political leadership of the Russian Federation, at the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, planned not only to seize territory and topple the government, but also prepared for mass killings of citizens during an intervention.
This is stated on Thursday, 1 December, in a report by the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
The authors of the report are RUSI researchers Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds, former adviser to the leadership of the Ministry of Defence and the Security Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Danyliuk, and former commander of the Air Assault Forces Mikhail Zabrodskiy.
The authors said that the Kremlin counted on Ukrainian officials fleeing or being captured after a rapid strike, and that society would not have time to mobilize against the invasion.
Separately, the task was to capture or destroy participants of the Revolution of Dignity 2013-2014 years. At the same time, the FSB of Russia was to detain local officials and ensure filtration of the civilian population.
Ukrainians were planned to be divided into four main categories:
- Intransigent. They were planned to be killed;
- Disloyal. They were to be convinced or intimidated;
- Neutral. It was envisaged to sway them to cooperate;
— Fully loyal. They were supposed to immediately work for the occupiers.
The report also notes that an important element of the plan for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine was to abandon the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In turn, in a tweet by Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, it says that the Kremlin was preparing mass killings of citizens during an intervention.
He clarified that this is evidenced by the preliminary analysis of documents concerning the beginning of Russia's 'special operation', as the Kremlin calls the wide-scale war against Ukraine.
«The preliminary analysis of documents ‘on the start of the SVO’ says that Russia planned to seize Central Ukraine, destroy the government, kill tens of thousands of people (Bucha everywhere), erase traces and present it in the media as ‘liberation’», — the publication says.
Podolyak added that after Ukraine's victory these proofs will be examined by an international tribunal.
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