According to the plan of the Russians, the division was supposed to help incline the Ukrainians to the occupation.

The Russians carefully considered the smallest details when planning a full-scale invasion of Ukraine . To suppress the resistance of the population, they divided the Ukrainians into four groups.

This is stated in the report of the London-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which investigates the issue of wars and armaments in the interests of the British army for the first half of the war, Babel writes .

Before the invasion, the Russians divided Ukrainians into four groups:

• the first group – those who must be eliminated physically;
• the second – those who need to be oppressed and oppressed;
• the third – neutral citizens who can be persuaded to cooperate;
• the fourth – potential collaborators.

“There was a specific list of the first group, where the active participants of the Revolution of Dignity were placed. The Russian FSB trained to capture or kill them. The second category was planned to be detected by going around the houses. Then, filtering camps were to be created for these people. After filtering, the “especially unreliable” were planned to be deported to Russia. And in Ukraine, they would be “re-educated” by “teachers” imported from Russia and other officials,” the publication writes.

In addition, the Russians planned to involve deputies in the Verkhovna Rada to accept the occupation. Pro-Russian people’s deputies should have created the “Movement for Peace” and encouraged other politicians to join it. This movement should ban protests against the occupation. If some regions did not agree to this, they would be cut off from energy and water supply, as well as from the financial system through the mechanisms of the National Bank.

(C)UNIAN 2022