Putinists are desperate. The 3 day special operation is now nearing 9 months long. Temporarily turning out the lights isn’t going to make Ukraine surrender. It will just increase their desire to remove Russian occupiers.
What’s really going on her is a gaslighting effort by Russia and its fellow travelers to make it seem Ukraine has lost and is no longer worthy of support from the west. That’s the only way Russia’s fake and Potemkin society can “win” this war. Its army has been soundly beaten and is on the run tonight from Ukrainian “farmers and miners”. Victorious armies don’t retreat, obviously.
Yet incredibly, they still refuse to admit that things haven't gone exactly according to plan. Every single thread since this war began has bottled any reported Ukrainian success, and lauded the continuous flow of Russian victories. And yet...the Russians magically control less territory than they did a few months ago.