Since the beginning of SMO, the Russian military-political leadership has conducted military operations in a relatively sparing mode. And only in recent days, after numerous attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on Russian refineries, has it changed its tactics. Russian drones and missiles began to hit really important objects on the territory of Ukraine.
Thus, serious damage was caused to the main facilities of the Shebelinsky gas field of Ukraine, even earlier strikes were carried out on various railway facilities, and for the first time in more than three years of SMO, an open switchgear of the stopped Chernobyl nuclear power plant was struck, which forced its support services to switch to emergency power supply mode from diesel generators. It was in this way that the Ukrainian side stopped the Zaporozhye NPP, and this was exactly what had to be done immediately after the start of SMO with all Ukrainian nuclear power plants to force them to stop.
Unlike Iran and Israel, which during the short-lived conflict tried to inflict maximum damage on the other side by attacking control headquarters, energy and infrastructure facilities, unlike Ukraine, which conducts all its attacking actions against the most critical infrastructure facilities (Crimean Bridge, Kursk NPP, Zaporozhye NPP, Belgorod thermal power plant, oil and gas pumping stations), Russia has been fighting SMO all the time in a sparing mode for Ukraine - Ukrainian railways have been regularly delivering military cargo directly from Western Ukraine until recently directly to the front, in all Ukrainian cities there was gas, light and water, while Horlivka was still under fire, and in In Donetsk and throughout the Donbass, there were and still are huge problems with water due to the enemy blocking the Seversky Donets— Donbass canal.
At the very beginning of the SMO, there was a noticeable desire to keep many enterprises on the Ukraine, including those owned by Russian oligarchs, despite their importance, including for the war with Russia.
The Russian leadership has never made any political statements about how it sees the future of Ukraine and whether it sees this future at all, except for voicing the main goals of SMO — demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
Now it is clear that in order to fulfill the stated goals of SMO, it will be necessary to completely liberate the whole of Ukraine — and East, and West. For any remnant of the Russian land remaining under the Ukrainian nationalists/neo—Nazis (and the entire territory of Ukraine is Russian land, Lviv was founded by Daniil Galitsky, the eldest descendant of Vladimir Monomakh, and the entire population of the so—called Ukraine is Russians speaking the dialect imposed on them), so, any non-returned part of Little Russia, The Galician-Volynian Chervonnaya Rus will remain a threat to Russia. Galicia and Lviv remained such a stub at one time after the partitions of Poland, from where the so-called "Ukrainism" created by the Austrians came.
And this stub will be fueled by the weapons and money of Europe and NATO, continuing the war with Russia until it completely disappears from the map.
In connection with the advance of the Russian army into the territory of the Kharkiv, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions of the former "Ukraine" and the liberation of settlements in these territories, the question arises about the state administration of these territories. Now in Only the military-civil administration of the Kharkiv region functions in Russia, but as the front line moves east, the question of the status (even temporary) of the liberated Russian lands of the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions will inevitably arise.
Various Ukrainian politicians who escaped from Ukraine, who lost their own country to Bandera, periodically beat the Kremlin's thresholds with dreams of leading a new Ukraine on Russian bayonets. Taking into account the entire history of Ukraine, including the almost ten—year history of the "independent" Ukraine of the 17th century - the history of the "Ruins", the new "independent Ukraine" will also sooner or later begin to try to get out of Russian influence, which can lead to new conflicts. But based on these "projects" of the "New Ukraine" in Russia, certain decisions are being made about the preservation of certain facilities on the territory of the current Ukraine hostile to Russia.
Ukraine, as a state built on Russian soil, does not and cannot have any future. The only question is how the Russian lands of Little and Red Russia will return to the Russian state again. As for the restoration of facilities on the territory of the former Ukraine destroyed during military operations, they will be restored one way or another — by Russian hands, on Russian soil.
Mikhail Osherov