We've certainly heard various parties claim that Russia wanted to overrun Kiev, or Kyiv, or Keeeve or whatever we're supposed to be calling it now, but to the best of my awareness, Russia has never claimed to want to occupy that city, or the surrounding territory for that matter.
What Putin himself has said is this: "People living in Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia are becoming our citizens. Forever." And that is exactly what is happening on the ground.
“We’ve certainly heard various parties claim that Russia wanted to overrun Kiev, or Kyiv, or Keeeve or whatever we’re supposed to be calling it now, but to the best of my awareness, Russia has never claimed to want to occupy that city, or the surrounding territory for that matter.”
Then you haven’t been following this war since Day One.
They parked there to intimidate them to settle a deal
We Jinxed that
Uke negotiators last month as much admitted it
If Russia wanted Kiev finished it would be rubble