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  doesn't make sense to destroy energy infrastructure from the point of view of trying to occupy another country, because when your soldiers are occupying the territories they will need power. it doesn't make sense to blow up civilians either because you need them to run the stores of occupied territories. If russia manages to defeat the ukrainian army and occupy all the territories, it won't last. Their soldiers will freeze and starve to death. If ukraine becomes a wasteland with no food or energy, the soldiers will be forced to go back to russia.
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  Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, the head of Ukrenergo, the national energy company, has stated that attacks on the Ukrainian energy system were planned by the Russian military together with power engineers.
  Kudrytskyi states that Russian engineers knew the Ukrainian power system "Like the back of their hand" because it was connected to Russia's system before the full-scale invasion last February.
  Ukrainian officials state that Russia conducted a systematic campaign aimed at destroying transformers located in key nodes of the power grid distribution system, and not the power plants themselves, FT writes.
  
  
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