Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to abandon Kyiv and other cities, but will not target civilians, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Ukraine’s intelligence services has obtained documents showing that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had issued a “new doctrine” of military attacks on a much broader range of civilian targets ahead of this winter, Zelenskiy said.
“We saw documents and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially to attack in the cities, in the villages, everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals,” Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview. “To pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities: this is the goal of the operation.”


As I’ve said before, that is probably not an efficient use of weapons on Russia’s part. They’re expending weapons that could be used against military targets or critical industry against civilian stuff.
Consider World War II. A lot of people in the runup thought that use of air power against civilian targets would prove to be extremely effective against morale. It was not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Douhet
Axis strategic bombing in World War II was not incredibly effective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
Our own strategic bombing campaign, out of the US, was not incredibly effective in Europe (including attempts to hit other critical goods, like ball bearings) until it focused on oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
We ran vastly more intensive bombing campaigns during the Korean War and Vietnam War than Russia (or Ukraine, for that matter) has the means to do in conventional terms. It did not cause a morale collapse and war termination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea
Hitting targets like that can cause misery and property damage, but generalized airstrikes to try to cause a collapse in morale is just not a very viable route to win wars.