That's a nonsense claim. If Russians would see human and civil destruction as a military goal, we wouldn't have thousands of victims, but hundreds of thousands.

That's a nonsense claim. If Russians would see human and civil destruction as a military goal, we wouldn't have thousands of victims, but hundreds of thousands. We would have bombing campaigns like the second world war, a single bomb dropped on a communist apartment block would kill hundreds. There is intense research and analysis by credible western sources that the Russian impasse is caused by exactly the fact they ran out of smart and precision weaponry, while the Ukrainian have took positions in the cities. This forces the Russians to an all out, total war of annihilation that is bad for them from a propaganda standpoint, both externally, pushing their allies away, and internally, since most Russians consider the Ukrainians as a brethren people.