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submitted 18 hours ago by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

"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."

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[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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?

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Is that against the rules of war or something?

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

Article 23(a) of the 1899 Hague Regulations provides: “It is especially prohibited … to employ poison or poisoned arms.”

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