Putin seeks to break Ukrainian civilians through infrastructure attacks, analyst says

Peter Zalmayev, founder and director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative in Kyiv, told France 24 that Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure aim to crush public morale and show fierce retaliation to domestic audiences, part of a strategy mixing military force, political goals and territorial ambition. He contrasted this with Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy assets that directly sustain Moscow’s war effort.