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Ukrainian drones now spray 2,500° C thermite streams right into Russian trenches
- robertheadley 2y agoIsn't this against the Geneva convention? Flame throwers and Napalm are both outlawed, that would make this a Warcrime.
- max-ibel 2y agoAFAIK, Napalm is illegal against a civilian population. IDK that it is illegal to use against military installations. Not that I think it is necessarily a smart move on the part of Ukraine, since Russia can play this game too.
- SkyPuncher 2y agoAllowable against military targets.
- stop50 2y agoThe geneva conventions apply only for wounded and sick on land(geneva convention I), wounded and sick on sea(geneva convention II), captured soldiers(geneva convention III) and at last civilians. The Hague Conventions on the other hand limit what weapons can be used. in the 1899 article IV may be violated.
- kozak 2y agoRussia uses TOS-1 thermobaric heavy flamethrowers A LOT in this war, so either this is lawful or no one cares.
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- dilyevsky 2y agoIncendiaries are not banned for military targets. Even white phosphorus is only “restricted” such that you need to take precautions regarding collateral damage. And GC specifically doesn’t regulate arms it mainly deals with prisoners and such.
- xenospn 2y agoRussia is blowing up schools in Lviv, which is closer to Poland than Russia. I think that ship has sailed
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- aguaviva 2y agoIn the most recent strike on Lviv's historic center to which you are referring, 7 people were killed, including nearly an entire family of 5 (and wounding 35 others): Of the five members of her family, only Yaroslav, Daryna’s father, is now alive, a lone survivor of a Russian strike on their home in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses, Daryna, 18, her sisters Yaryna, 21, and Emilia, 7, and their 43-year-old mother Yevhenia were killed while sheltering in the staircase of their residential building, the Ukrainian emergency services said. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/europe/ukraine-safe-haven-city-family-killed-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/europe/ukraine-safe-haven-cit... The attacks also damaged seven educational facilities, including a primary school and three secondary schools, including Lyceums 5 and 17: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/05/deadly-russian-attacks-lvivs-historic-district https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/05/deadly-russian-attacks-l... Russia's defence ministry said that "all designated targets had been hit": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqj35jv3e7o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqj35jv3e7o Curiously, you are choosing not only to omit this information, but to depict the result of the strike as something entirely different from what it was.
- protomolecule 2y ago[flagged]
- aguaviva 2y agoClearly the target was something else in the vicinity. "All designated targets had been hit", said the Russian Defense Ministry. Why would Russians do something that rotten from the moral point of view and so wasteful from the purely military pov? Ask your neighbors.
- beardyw 2y agoI think this needs verification because it doesn't ring true to me.
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- marssaxman 2y agoWhat about it seems unlikely? While I have never combined the activities, I do have some experience both flying drones and using thermite. The video showing a drone pouring a stream of molten metal down onto a line of trees looked straightforward enough that I could easily imagine how it might have been done. Thermite is not a complicated technology!
- squarefoot 2y agoAs much as this is horrifying no matter from which point of view one looks at it, also because many of the Russian soldiers were either lured or coerced into fighting a war they didn't want against their close relatives, let's not forget that it all started with an invasion. Putin wanted it and he is responsible with all those who support him for all consequences.