RUSSIA has put together secret war plans for the invasion and total takeover of Ukraine, new reports have claimed.
With tensions already at boiling point between the two countries, sources claim Moscow has already set out how it would install a new puppet regime in Kyiv following an all-out assault on Ukraine.
As reported in the German publication BILD, a foreign intelligence service says it has gathered details of Russia's "post-war plans" for Ukraine, which it says are currently being discussed in top Russian military circles.
Even though Russia has not invaded Ukraine, preparations for this scenario are already underway.
According to the report, the Russian army plans to encircle and besiege Ukraine's major cities after destroying the country's forces in the field.
After this, secret service sleeper cells already smuggled into Ukraine, as well as local politicians loyal to Vladimir Putin, would be activated in the towns, while "secret service agents would penetrate into the cities".
They would have the task of "establishing pro-Russia leaderships in the cities" which would then "agree on the surrender and handover" to the Russian occupiers.
According to BILD, Russian intelligence forces would next "seize strategic facilities, eliminate threats, recruit those willing to cooperate and establish a new leadership in the conquered cities."
This practice would be used in all of Ukraine's key cities until all of them "peacefully" came under Russian control.
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PUPPET STATE
A full-scale invasion is currently the most likely scenario
Following the capture of Ukraine's cities, the report states, Putin plans to set up a puppet parliament in the country, a so-called "People's Rada".
This would replace the Ukrainian parliament and declare it null and void.
Security service sources state: "This People's Rada will become the puppet legislature of Ukraine, peppered with so-called representatives previously selected by the Russian secret service."
Out of this sham parliament would emerge a "backup government" which would rule the country according to Russia's will.
According to the secret service, this would give the coup "the appearance of democracy and legal protection".
To push through such a plan would require massive propaganda efforts by Russian media in Ukraine and the West, while pro-Russian "experts" and politicians would be used to justify the invasion and takeover of Ukraine.
STATE OF EMERGENCY
Next, would follow the darkest stage of Putin's alleged plans – the breaking of ordinary Ukrainians' resistance by the puppet government.
The report states that the government's role "would be to declare a state of emergency and, particularly threatening, to implement the Russian plan to set up camps in which those Ukrainians who showed themselves to be uncooperative would be sorted out."
Camps for the detention of pro-Ukrainian activists are allegedly already being planned, with lists drawn up of who will be locked up.
Newly-established pro-Russian secret services would then help with the terrorising of Ukraine's population to break the country's resistance, using the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Belarus after 2020's stolen election as a potential model.
The report concludes: "For Russia, the success of the entire campaign depends on controlling the conquered territories, bringing about a true surrender of the Ukrainian people, and receiving recognition and legitimacy from the newly-established government."
It is alleged that Russia's security service the FSB is currently training pro-Russian groups for deployment in Ukraine and that Putin has tasked them with recruiting Ukrainian politicians and eliminating opponents of the Kremlin.
The end goal of this invasion would be the calling of a nationwide referendum on absorbing Ukraine into Russia.
According to the report, "a full-scale invasion is currently the most likely scenario".
Such an invasion will take place in February or March at the latest "if Putin doesn't change his mind".
Military expert Robert Lee from King's College London told BILD: "Russia will probably have most of the armed forces it plans to deploy in a week and could then escalate the situation in the short term if it so chooses".
Russia's embassy has denied any such plan to invade and take over Ukraine, branding the report "a strange mixture of speculation and rumours" that "the embassy fundamentally does not comment on".
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