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  • First of all, if their allies are ready to fight, then kill them.

    Second, the guy clearly has an injured right leg and appears unarmed.

    If the roles were reversed, would you feel the same? When the Russians do this shit, do you make excuses and say the guy was drunk or that it was a mercy killing? Granted, I don’t see Ukrainians throwing their wounded outside to die, but that brings up another thought. What if this guy was a Ukrainian POW that the Russians decided to throw outside?

    I fucking hate the Russians for what they’re doing, and I hope Putin ends up getting thrown screaming out of a window before the end of the day. But the argument that this was a “mercy killing” or that this guy was combat effective seems disingenuous, at least without further context.





  • https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/pt/customary-ihl/v2/rule47

    "Geneva Conventions (1949)

    Pursuant to common Article 3(1) of the 1949 Geneva Conventions,

    [p]ersons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

    To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:

    (a) violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture.

    Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, Article 3; Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, Article 3; Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, Article 3; Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, Article 3(1)."