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What I don't understand is, why would Russia randomly do these small-scale actions.
I'm basing this all on reports from the Institute for the Study of War (which is a Washington based organization, mind you). I'm just a layman who likes reading the ISW. So take it with a grain of salt.
The ISW has repeatedly said (bullet points ISW, comments are mine):
A good example of this is over a year ago when there were discussions in The Netherlands against providing Ukraine with F-16's which were an "offensive weapon". (Is there such a thing as a 'defensive' weapon I ask you?)
They will keep the pressure on since a loss on a battlefield is a sure way for Putin and his 'strongman' image to go to shit. Russia needs a victory to sell itself. Nearly everything they do including the disinformation in their papers, the bullshit on TV and the diplomatic signaling to other nations is in service of that. The state controls everything because authoritarianism is a fact and a way of life over there.
I think Putin and his cronies feel existentially threatened because they can't sell a victory to the people. They're forced to sell god knows how many of KIA/MIA/WIA/POW. The ISW also reported that an immediate return of Russian combat veterans into society might lead to some nasty stuff and that would have to be dealt with either by Russia or in negotiations with Russia.
Back to what ISW said:
I think there might also a little bit of some soldier somewhere "accidentally" misprogramming a drone's path to fuck with the west a little? It doensn't all have to come from higher up. Drone attacks and border incidents can just as easily be one angry vatnik and now you have a diplomatic incident that Putin himself probably believes as "European warmongering". Who knows?
If Russia can't win this war? It's all the fault of the Nazi imperialist west, since the "expansion of NATO" threatens the "traditional" heteronormative values of Russian society. So we're the cause of this war, even though Russia annexed Crimea, shot down MH17, genocides the Ukrainians, indoctrinates Ukrainian children and kills people in the street and prisoners of war in cold blood.
'Just war' theory says something about when entering and continuing a war is 'just' or not. I have no idea where nuclear weapons fit into this but I don't want to find out.
I was thinking bear traps when I remembered: Mines.
But yes. Your point notwithstanding. :)