What would be the point of doing such monstrosity on purpose?
About 90% of the war is based on russian narcissistic rage simply trying to destroy and kill....
There used to be a great blog about narcissism (which devolved into crap later but that's besides the point)
Anyway, the defining feature of narcissists is that they build an image of themselves which is actually very fragile and to maintain it they want (and require) others to reflect the image back at them and when it doesn't happen... bad things do happen.
russians are socialized into thinking they are superior to everyone else and they want to see that reflected back at them in the attitude of other countries.... it doesn't happen, worse, even Ukrainians (who they are socialized to think of as second class russians) reject them it drives them into narcissistic rage.
that's why they do things like target shopping malls and printing houses... it's not strategic and it's not accidental
(the US is also a narcissistic culture but mostly the world does reflect back an image of the US that is acceptable to most Americans so there's less need to engage in narcissistic rage, though that does happen (Iraq invasion as a response to 911 is classic misplaced narcissistic rage).
.I asked if this is true:
it's direct from the russian government and run by a big fan of censorship.... do the math