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You have to wonder who is controlling this lunacy - if anybody is. Is it Putin himself, thrashing about in impotent desperation, or has he devolved responsibility to his thuggish minions who are now trying to outdo each other in brutality with an eye to the main chance when Putin goes? Being Russians they presumably know what will happen to them when the regime falls.
Given the appointment of Surovkin as commanding general in Ukraine being almost coincidental with the attacks on power infrastructure, it seems certain to me that that is his strategy, and - in that it is having a major effect - it is a major change from what preceeded it.