The objective of the Russians?
“Decapitate the government” of Ukraine to replace it with a team favorable to Moscow, according to Western military sources.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia wanted to "liberate" Ukrainians from "oppression", seeming to confirm the goal of a reversal of power.
Their military actions also testify to a desire to bring Kiev down: bombardments of residential areas, massive air presence, gunshots and explosions heard in parts of the city... Russian troops are also seen in towns neighboring the capital, ready to join her.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky, who until then has maintained a strong position of military response to Russia at all costs, announces that he is the regime's "number one target" and his family "number two target".
He urges the inhabitants of Kiev to "remain cautious" and wanted to salute the "heroism" of the Ukrainians in the face of an invasion which according to him has already left 137 dead and 316 injured on the Ukrainian side, assuring that his soldiers were doing "everything possible to defend the country.
The Ukrainian Defense Minister called on him to take up arms: “We ask citizens to inform us of enemy movements, make molotov cocktails, neutralize the occupier!
The soldiers distributed weapons to the volunteers.
Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev and former boxer as well as his brother Vladimir,
took up arms to defend their city and went to the front line.
The president even calls on “seasoned Europeans” to come and fight alongside the army.
Vladimir Putin threatened Westerners with an "immediate" response if they tried to "interfere".
