Russia has launched one of its largest aerial attacks on Ukraine, Kyiv’s foreign minister said on November 17, with drones and missiles targeting energy infrastructure and other civilian sites in cities across the country, prompting neighboring Poland to scramble fighter jets.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you.
His statement is unfortunately untrue and part of the Russian narrative (although probably the poster is unaware).
Russia is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure to freeze out Ukrainian civilians in the hopes they will force their government to capitulate. This is the modern version of carpet bombing cities. Their ballistic missiles are plenty accurate and the only types of weapons that can properly damage hard targets like powerplants.
Ukraine is cold now, and will be colder in a few weeks. By products of power generation is heat, and used for heating homes.
Russians target hospitals, universities, cultural centres and locations with a lot of citizens. They even do double tap attacks (hitting a civilian target like a coffee shop and then 7 minutes later… once first responders arrived hit the exact same place again).
A random housing block far behind the front might be deviated ordenance… hitting powerplants with a kinzal missile is not.