"These ICC warrants mark another crucial step towards justice," said Amnesty International's Ukraine director. "Their issuance helps rebuild trust in international law and the institutions that uphold it."
Targetting electrical infrastructure is technically a warcrime, and the persistent targeting of the grid in Kharkiv this year with intent to slowly depopulate the city is probably the first real war crime the Russians have been responsible for in the war so far.
ICC have solid jurisdiction because Russians haven’t been white since 2022.
The rules of what constitutes a military capacity is so large you can basically do whatever you want. If a field commander is using the lights to read a map it’s completely justified to take down the electrical system. Obviously on a moral level it’s fucked to destroy infrastructure like that, but there basically is no legal case here.
Targetting electrical infrastructure is technically a warcrime, and the persistent targeting of the grid in Kharkiv this year with intent to slowly depopulate the city is probably the first real war crime the Russians have been responsible for in the war so far.
ICC have solid jurisdiction because Russians haven’t been white since 2022.
If Russia can prove the infrastructure was being used in a military capacity it’s not a war crime.
Yep, all of the targeting during the period the ICC cites was mostly to disable the electrically powered rail grid as far as I know.
Kharkiv the past few months would be harder to argue there.
The rules of what constitutes a military capacity is so large you can basically do whatever you want. If a field commander is using the lights to read a map it’s completely justified to take down the electrical system. Obviously on a moral level it’s fucked to destroy infrastructure like that, but there basically is no legal case here.