Sergei Lavrov justifies the attack on Ukraine's infrastructure

See this link for my new spy thriller, Shadow Lives, out yesterday: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63238389-shadow-lives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, had already sunk low in the world's estimation following his oft-repeated backing for Putin's war in Ukraine. Not so much the diplomat, more the Kremlin propagandist. Now he has sunk even lower if that is possible by claiming that the missile and artillery strikes against Ukraine's infrastructure which have destroyed the country's heating and water supplies are legitimate acts in a legitimate war. He clearly has no understanding of the international rules of armed conflict which ban the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. But Lavrov dismisses that and says the attacks are justified because Ukraine has been aided with arms by the West and that Russians are being killed as a result. In war of course, rules generally get forgotten, so it's hardly the first time that civilians have faced power blackouts and water shortages when rockets and artillery shells are being launched every day. But the Russians are doing this as a deliberate war campaign. Putin believes/hopes that the Ukrainian people will demand their government ends the conflict. But this is never going to happen. So Putin will just go on destroying Ukraine's power stations and other facilities upon which the Ukrainian people depend for their existence until it has all gone. President Macron of France told Biden today at the White House that he planned to phone Putin in the coming days. But to what end? Putin will hear what the French leader has to say but he won't listen. Putin stopped listening to appeals a long time ago. What he wants is what he is doing right now, making the lives of Ukrainians as miserable and as desperate as possible. And he has Sergei Lavrov behind him all the way.