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Believe you are wrong. Yes Russia has done pure terror campaigns where better uses of weapons for military targets were possible.
It seems like a while since I’ve heard of Russia doing this for specific examples but it does appear they targeted civilian infrastructure I guess to break the will to fight versus military targets to break military capabilities. The dam that flooded a while ago does not appear to have been military target and some say actually benefits Ukraine that way.
Russian war looks nothing like US war. Some could say this is because it’s less capable. But they level cities and civilians suffer. If you look at country population growth Iraq and Afghanistan went off trend for like a month than back to normal. Chechnya or anyone Russia has targeted has not done that.
Russia hates the fact Ukraine even exists. It was never a military threat to them. The entire war has always been about eliminating a culture. If Ukraine won’t bend the knee to Russia then in there view they shouldn’t exists.
I don’t know what part of Russian military history even fits this narrative you want. We are talking about hundreds of years of military history. Life means nothing to them.
The very best case for Russia is some sort of extreme indifference. Something like Henry Ruggs driving blacked out at 170 mps and killing civilians. But I think they’ve gone farther into outright choice of civilian casualties thinking people will surrender if you kill the civilians enough.
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