Russia wanted to divide Ukrainians into five core categories after occupying the country

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia planned to divide citizens into five categories after the occupation of Ukraine — a study by the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

In particular, the following core categories are mentioned:

▪️ Those deemed leaders of Ukrainian nationalism who were specified for physical liquidation on a high-priority target list or for capture to enable show trials;

▪️Those suspected of intending to support acts of resistance who needed to be recruited or suppressed, including anyone associated with Ukrainian law enforcement, local government, the military or related to officials that were not actively collaborating. They were to be recruited or harassed;

▪️Those who were deemed apathetic;

▪️Those actively collaborating with Russian forces;

▪️Individuals who were necessary for running critical national infrastructure.

Russian forces were tasked with seizing all forms of records: public health, tax police, electoral and local government records, insurance companies, etc. This data would be used to build a map of who was supposed to live where, who they were related to and whether they had any connections with the Ukrainian state. Therefore, upon seizing the Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia NPPs was the seizing of all hard drives from these sites.

Based on the war experience in Chechnia, Russia's military and political command believed that to control Ukraine, they needed 8% of the population to agree to cooperate.

In addition, the authors of the report note that the Russians follow a systematic approach to creating occupation administrations. It is evidence of thorough preparation. In particular, Russians use the same devices for electric shock torture.