There is not need to create false Russian attacks against civilians. They are real and documented.
As an aside the Brits burned cities to the ground in WWII with great civilian casualties in fire raids, as we did in Japan with atomic bombs and our fire raids. It worked. That is what war is. My comment is not justification of such. It is just a comment on the reality of war. It is ugly. You kill your enemy and all that support him. It is not pretty.
War is bad, but sometimes the alternative is worse.
Ukraine is neither an ally nor an enemy.
Same with Russia.
Perhaps this isn’t the case for the phony rulers of this country, but not in my view.