[marktwain]

More silly propaganda, The Russians only purpose in Kiev has been to keep Ukraine military occupied while wiped the neo-Nazi bastards in Mariupol and set up the final assault on 60,000 to 80,000 Ukrainian troops encircled in the east. This likely will be the week where those troops are finished off.

Yeah, right...

They never wanted to take Kiev and install a puppet government. /S

We will know more in a week. I remember numerous posts about how the Russians north of Kiev were haveing an "operational pause" and could take Kiev anytime they wanted to.. and had destroyed the Ukrainian army, they were just "mopping up".

We will see in a week.

[Kazan]

They never wanted to take Kiev and install a puppet government. /S

You're clueless to what is going on and what the Russian strategy.

The Russian strategy is to force a surrender under their terms. They need to keep the government in tact to do that.

The Russians don't even necessarily want the whole country under their control, just the eastern half. The goal was to free Donbass from an eight-year war the neo-Nazi Azov bastards were determined to fight and get the water flow turned back onto Crimea.