India turns to ‘trusted friend’ Russia for oil, LNG supply as Iran war energises ties

Victim blaming nonsense. If Russian oil and gas terminals explode it's because of precisely one man. Putin. The fact that oil terminals take so long, and are so expensive, to (re)build is precisely what makes them vital targets. Not only does destroying an export terminal cut down on oil revenues within Russia, directly reducing the amount of money available for the war, but it also forces them to divert money and manpower from the war effort to rebuild the terminal. Russia has shown that they'll throw every single minority in their country into the meat grinder to gain a few meters of ground in Ukraine. That means the only way for this war to actually end and for the deaths to end (which you claim to care about) is to collapse Russia's economy... and the way to do that is to sanction their oil and gas exports. Either diplomatically or kinetically. Now ideally, we'd be doing this through diplomacy, but countries like India and China are, right or wrong, choosing their own self interests over global peace and continuing to import oil, which leaves kinetic sanctions as the only alternative. Perhaps an unintended consequence of their supposed 'self interest'? Regardless, it's deeply sad that the poor in the developing world may suffer as a result of this war, but if your country truly cares about that then they should be putting diplomatic and economic pressure on the only actor who can actually end it... Putin. If Russia withdraws, the war ends. If Ukraine withdraws, Ukraine ends, and a nationwide Bucha massacre begins. And by the way, Ukraine was a top-five global exporter of wheat and maize, mostly to developing countries. They're known as the bread basket of Europe for a reason. Yet oddly, you don't seem to be too concerned about Putin mining and bombing those ideal farmlands which will also directly hurt developing countries...