Burstar

In a combat zone you are considered combat effective until proven otherwise. This is not a warcrime. Faking an injured leg or being dead are commonly done to avoid getting droned. Not seeing a weapon isn't an excuse either. Grenade on the belt, or sidearm in the coat are both likely possibilities. You don't know and until you do it is safer to take them out then apply warm and fuzzy civilian sensibilities to the problem.

This is without a doubt a war crime

There are many doubts. He could be faking injury, drunk, still armed. The observer drone who suspected incapacitation was not the one attacking so you'd have to prove the actual attacking drone operator believed the target was incapacitated. Injured =/ incapacitated and his presence alone at the front occupies enemy territory which means they are a participant.

The bounds on what are 'reasonable' are very different in war than civilian life. This tendency to jump to 'ope warcrime' is as irrational as saying someone with an automatic weapon firing a burst commits a warcrime when the second round in a row strikes the victim. 'They were injured with the first bullet so it is a warcrime and automatic weapons must be prohibited by law'!

Had this soldier been on a stretcher, and/or being attended by an unarmed someone with a red cross on their arm, or had waved a white anything in the air, I'd agree with calling it a warcrime. A still conscious soldier being tossed out on their ass by 2 armed soldiers and 'appearing injured' in this era where the enemy feigns injury/death to avoid drone strikes is not hors de combat.

The og version isn't much better.

Ukraine’s Moscow-malleting doodlebug missile is about to become very important

That said 'completes development' instead of 'develops' would have been an, unlikely in this inexplicable era of minimum syllable headlines, improvement.

Okay @wilshire, of the myriad videos I've seen in my time as mod here you finally found one that made me say 'W.T.F.' out loud. 😂

Banned for depiction of a human centipede! 😋

Okay, thanks.

Why does a mastodon user get completely different profiles and history when viewed from different lemmy instances? They look like 2 completely different users when compared except for having the same @address. In fact this makes them immune from moderation if they comment from a different instance than the mod is on.

You cheeky mf. GD it. Merry xmas

It's not technically the same. If Putin withdraws but still disputes ownership of the previously occupied (or any part of Ukraine) then it can cause issues with NATO membership. It is not enough that Russia retreats. They have to officially give up their BS claims too.

This violence is par for the community, and a stained pant leg is not gore. If this material bothers you I suggest getting your Ukraine news elsewhere, or send a letter to Putin demanding he withdraw all forces to the 2014 borders or he won't get your vote.

"we need you to do us a favour though"

What did you lose in this war?

The World peace. A little bit of our humanity every time orcs commit a warcrime and we cannot arrest and punish them for it. All the overt and covert attacks on our respective national security, political representatives, and electoral system. Our loved ones harmed directly or indirectly by their hostile actions in the world... the list goes on.

All that stands up there with simply wanting revenge for russia attacking our friends and ally. I wanna bet you are simply a ru sympathizer who drank too much of their Koolaid, because that's the only way this answer isn't obvious to you.

Sukharevsky reported the presence of laser weapons in Ukraine and the use of a drone-"matt"

Ukraine today has laser weapons, its name is “Trident”, and also a project for the use of a drone “matt” with two FPVs, said Colonel Vadim Sukharevsky, commander of the Forces of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“We can state that today Ukraine is, if I am not mistaken, the fifth country that can say that it has a laser. Today, we can shoot down aircraft at an altitude of more than 2 km with this laser,” he said during an appeal to the participants of the conference “European Defense Industry: Prospects for Cooperation with the Ukrainian Defense Industry, organized by the analytical center We Build Ukraine.

According to Sukharevsky, the Forces of unmanned systems are now on its way to scale and enhance the laser. “He really works, he really is,” he said.

Separately, he drew attention to the development of drones-"matts", which carry light impact drones.

"Today we use so-called drones-"matts", FPV carriers, with a depth of more than 70 km. They carry 2 FPV under them and actually act as a repeater and impress the enemy's deep objects. “It’s a real breakthrough,” the colonel said.

As Sukharevsky noted, the scaling of this project is one of the most promising elements in its work.

Speaking about the Unmanned Systems Force, the commander noted that “We are not within six months”, and at this stage there are already combat and scientific units “which close the component of air, land and water.” According to him, the group of the SBS works on the entire front line.