Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Pskov's Labours Lost, as Shakespeare might have put it.

(I'll get my coat...)

I have a suspicion that, due to greater Ukrainian knowledge of Russian deployments thanks to inteligence assistance from the west, they have no shortage of military targets to hit. Also, they may still have to use ammunition carefully. In such a scenario it's better to use the ammunition on a target that can hurt them rather than one that can't, and rather than one that might lose them some of the international goodwill that they've built up since February.

The Russian picture of the Ukrainian deployments is likely to be much less reliable, which may be one reason why Russia is targeting civilian infrastructure so much - because they know for sure where those targets are.

Russian occupation authorities halted civilian traffic across the Dnipro river in Kherson

that dam is looking dicy

Russia will not attack the UK. End of story.

They can try and spin it that way, but who actually cares? Anyone who might be swayed by the Kremlin probably isn't worth a jot anyway.

On a purely tactical level, creating greater strain on Russian resources would acceralate the effect of various sanctions, and hopefully force them to divert resources from the war towards their domestic situation.

1. They don't have the resources, and have to focus on the immediate problem which is the Russian army and logistics in their territory.
2. They are firing at military targets in neighbouring Belgorad Oblast if they get the opportunity.
3. Destroying Russian federation army logistics is a better return on investment, it degrades the Russian armies attacking effectiveness.
4. Once they start hitting civilian infrastructure at scale, they bolster support for the Kremlin. From WW II German civilians did not give up under heavy bombing in WW II. Tit for tat is a war crime when there is no military objective behind the attacks.
5. Destroying civilian infrastructure in Russia would be part of a wider war and a prelude to invasion of the Russian heartland. i.e. march on Moscow.

No, doubt about it the Russian leadership own rhetoric that they intend to terrorize citizens of Ukraine and backed by some of their actions that is seemingly what they are doing, that is a war crime. You have to bear in mind that one day you could find yourself in a uniform or pushing a button to destroy a target, the laws of armed conflict apply to you. I was just following orders may be subject to review afterwards and also weigh on your conscience.

What are jus ad bellum and jus in bello?

Rule 1. The Principle of Distinction between Civilians and Combatants

You have to be clear when you are hitting your target, for instance the Kerch stait bridge carried both civilian and military equipment. Since the Russian army uses rail to transport heavy equipment and fuel, so it can be considered a legitimate military target. If that was the ONLY means of supplying the 2 million civilians in Crimea with food and essential supplies and they had no other means to get them, then the judgement becomes less clear, since it would have a disproportionate effect on civilians, whichever side they are on.

The "Visegrad group" as a concept of a collection of like minded EU members is kind of defunct now I expect (Russia's invasion killed it finally!).

That twitter account has a massive slant, but along with the odd bit of rubbish and "fake news" to push a particular agenda it (IMO) is sometimes well informed, and the stories can appear elsewhere later. Suggesting people who run it do have connections somewhere.

The article from "Oko" I linked (https://oko.press/visegrad24-anonomous-account-mystery-revealed/) was first thing I've found that tried to put a name to potential operators.

Simple, they are utterly incapable of doing so. The shitshow that is the Russian army would not get 500 meters into Estonia, suggesting an attack on the UK is beyond a joke. You might as well have suggested The Zulus could have mounted an attack on London.

With what? They only thing they are capable of is poisoning people with perfume bottles.

Putinbots wetting their man-knickers at a fantasy Russian attack on the UK.

Get a grip. Literally.

No it isn't, any more than the UK attacking Russian infrastructure is. The Horde would not have attacked Ukraine if they had retained their nuclear weapons.

Go on. You’re dying to say that it’ll be nukes!!

A bit of a different opinion than the Russian representatives on this forum.

Have Russia got any more escalation left in them?

And before anyone suggests it, they're not going to use nukes/chemical weapons etc. Their recent climb down about the grain exports disproves those threats.