Putin's new objective: the destruction of Ukraine

I suspect Vladimir Putin has given up on defeating Ukraine with troops and tanks. They have failed abysmally. So now he is just concentrating on firing artillery shells and missiles every day at civilian infrastucture to obliterate the country. That is his sole objective now, to punish Ukraine and in particular the Kyiv govenment, for daring to fight back and not surrender to the mighty Russian army. It almost doesn't matter whether the Ukrainian military liberates towns and cities because the Russians will continue bombing and shelling the cities they have abandoned until there is nothing left. Russian combat troops don't have a role anymore in this war of attrition. It's now all about long-range cruise missiles and artillery. Kherson was liberated and Ukraine rejoiced. Indeed, the western world rejoiced. But Putin's answer, once he had got the surviving Russian forces out of Kherson and into relative safety on the other side of the Dnipro river, was to order mass shelling and missile strikes in revenge. Kherson is being blasted into a scraheap. All the residents are being advised to leave. So much for liberation. Putin is no fool and he doesn't care about the Ukrainian civilians. He wants revenge for his army's failures and the easiest way is to annihilate Ukraine's towns and cities, and that is what he is doing. He once said he didn't want to destroy Ukraine but now he does.