A Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine is likely to involve the seizure of key cities and pave the way for regime change under a pro-Moscow leader, a Japanese scholar says."The goal would be occupying major cities" such as the capital Kyiv, "not to conquer them but rather, to take them hostage" and eventually force a change in government, Yu Koizumi, an expert in Russian military and security affairs, told Kyodo News, as Russia's troops amassed on Ukraine border's have become the largest since the 1991 Soviet Union collapse.Koizumi's views about a possible scenario of seizing cities incl…READ FULL ARTICLE
