Post #3583057
2026-07-04 14:49 UTC
Ukraine is obviously the defender,and Russia can end the war any time it wants by returning the illegally occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea.
But when Ukraine strikes against Crimean power plants and transformer stations, is it committing war crimes? Russia was accused of war crimes when it did it to Ukraine. Is there a dual-use exception when a region is a staging area for attacks against your territory? If there is, that sounds like something Israel would claim as a legal defense for at least some of their actions in Gaza.
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@pettter@social.accum.se 2026-07-04 14:52
@clacke No, Ukraine (and Hamas) both are committing war crimes by striking civilians and civilian infrastructure, but as you say those crimes are downstream of the supreme crime of aggression that both are subject to.