Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of Ukraine's Presidential Office, stated that Russia's tactical goals are to seize Ukrainian territory and decapitate Ukraine's leadership to provoke panic and unrest, install a puppet government, and adopt a bilateral peace pact.
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Russia aims to seize Ukrainian territory
Russia aims to strike at Ukraine's leadership to provoke unrest
Russia aims to remove and decapitate Ukraine's legitimate leadership
Russia aims to create maximum panic in Ukraine
Russia aims to install a puppet government in Ukraine
Russia aims to adopt a pact on bilateral relations with a puppet Ukrainian government
During the occupation of the Kyiv region, Russians took 600 civilians prisoner
Maksym Kozachyna, a chaplain of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, was shot by Russian soldiers during their invasion of Kyiv Oblast while reportedly wearing priest's cassock
First, the Russians started doing door-to-door searches for weapons and mobile phones.
Ukrainian National Guard forces destroyed more than one platoon of Russian soldiers during fighting in Hostomel.
Ukrainian forces shot down three to five Russian helicopters in Hostomel.
Serhiy Falatyuk received the Order of Courage for shooting down a Russian helicopter at Hostomel.
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