• ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8y655p52do

    Three men have been killed in the Moscow region, in what is described as the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.

    A further 18 people, including three children, were injured, health officials told Russian media.

    Officials said all three men who died had been working at a distribution centre when it was hit by drone debris in the village of Yam, near Domodedovo airport. Dozens of vehicles were destroyed when the drone hit a car park, and the glass front of a supermarket was badly damaged.

    Children and supermarkets aren’t legitimate military targets, for a single example, another https://en.topwar.ru/207174-gde-i-kogda-russkij-soldat-s-izvestnogo-video-otrazhal-ataki-ukrainskogo-drona-.html from geneva convention Article 41 - Safeguard of an enemy hors de combat

    spoiler

    A person who is recognized or who, in the circumstances, should be recognized to be hors de combat shall not be made the object of attack.

    1. A person is hors de combat if:

    (a) He is in the power of an adverse Party;

    (b) He clearly expresses an intention to surrender; or

    © He has been rendered unconscious or is otherwise incapacitated by wounds or sickness, and therefore is incapable of defending himself; provided that in any of these cases he abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape.

    1. When persons entitled to protection as prisoners of war have fallen into the power of an adverse Party under unusual conditions of combat which prevent their evacuation as provided for in Part III, Section I, of the Third Convention, they shall be released and all feasible precautions shall be taken to ensure their safety.

    many other examples can be found

    the I think the title is perhaps a reference to this classic