“Found these in the Zaporizhzhya direction. The enemy is throwing chocolates with an explosive mechanism. Do not open them under any circumstances. Our guy was lucky that it did not detonate, otherwise he could have ended up crippled. I know guys whose fingers were torn off like that.”
Explosives don’t seem smart. Why didn’t they poison the chocolate instead? The enemy opens the chocolate, sees nothing wrong with it, shares it with their mates, and then now you’ve got five casualties who are none the wiser. Is that against the rules of war or something?
Poisoning food or water or employing poison in food in warfare violates a buttload of relevant treaties and laws. Venom, poison, overly lethal gases, even spreading disease are pretty big no-nos, the goal isn’t to cause indiscriminate or agonizing deaths
I mean, so does an explosive charge in this specific context.
Booby trapping violate the same traties, especially hiding explosives in food. If ukrained wanted to commit war crimes, they would choose the smart way, this is just idiotic russians feeding lies to idiotic people
Yes. Very much so. Just poison in general is a war crime, let alone hiding it in chocolate.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/fr/customary-ihl/v2/rule72