Why do you keep insisting that Russian military objective was to take over Kiev? Did Putin ever announced such thing during his speech when the so-called "special operations" started.
Putin maybe all the negative things his worst critics say he is but one thing he's not is mentally deranged to assume that invading or capturing a country at least 2 or 3 times the size of Iraq, a country with a sizable military that's also been trained by U.S. led NATO for 8 years with a meagre "invasion force" of about 150,000 troops is not based on facts but conjecture.