Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that it was "inevitable" that "war" would come to Russia after authorities there were forced to temporarily close a busy Moscow airport following an overnight drone attack on the capital.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that it was “inevitable” that “war” would come to Russia after authorities there were forced to temporarily close a busy Moscow airport following an overnight drone attack on the capital.

  • sudneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Any reference to this principle? This doesn’t sound like a way international right works. I can imagine this can be part of military doctrine, though.

    All that said, any airport is a military target in time of war.

    Yeah, an airport for sure, I consider it “infrastructure”.

    • Worstdriver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The US Naval Handbook (1995) states: Some obligations under the law of armed conflict are reciprocal in that they are binding on the parties only so long as both sides continue to comply with them. A major violation by one side will release the other side from all further duty to abide by that obligation.

      • sudneo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        “Some” obligations may perfectly work this way . Not sure I would take a military handbook as a reference for international right (especially from one of the countries that doesn’t even recognize the ICC), but either way, I strongly doubt the meaning is “if they start torturing their prisoners, we should torture ours” or mirroring other war crimes. I am no expert, but I think that the motivation “the enemy did it before us” wouldn’t hold much in the ICC.