Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Thursday defended Moscow's mass missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, calling it a legitimate military target, despite warnings by the United Nations that the strikes could amount to war crimes.Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Mr. Lavrov said that the repeated strikes against Ukraine's infrastructure which have knocked out electricity and water for millions of people as winter looms were justified because Russia is hitting targets that are used to replenish Ukrainian forces with weapons provided by Western nations.
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