Now, during the fighting in Kharkiv and elsewhere, it is absolutely clear that the tactics of the so-called human shield are being used. That is, there was the placement of artillery on the territory of residential quarters and the placement of firing points in houses, where civilians are located, including in residential buildings, and the use of tactics of so-called "stray mortars". Now about how this is assessed from the point of view of international law.
According to the status of the International Criminal Court, the use of the presence of a civilians or other protected persons to protect certain points, areas or armed forces from military actions is a war crime during armed conflicts. . That is, Ukrainian nazis, you are war criminals.
Using residential facilities for conducting military operations is a crime under international laws if you are fighting in the city. In general, this applies to any participants in the fighting.
That is, if you have chosen a city as a place of warfare, evacuate the civilian population from there.
Or conduct military operations somewhere else.
When the defenders of Stalingrad fight in the city, the civilian population was evacuated from there.
So, it is a crime to occupy a city and conduct armed operations there without evacuating civilians from there.
Understanding, that this is crime, has been going on for a long time.
When the austrians, wanted that there to be no destruction of Vienna by Napoleon's troops, they simply let Napoleon into the city, although they continued the war outside the capital.
When the Americans did not want the destruction of Manila in the Philippines during World War 2, they declared Manila an open city and withdrew all troops from there, so that the city would not be destroyed, they wanted to preserve it.
And this is, in principle, the normal practice of conducting military operations.
Uncontrolled distribution of weapons to incomprehensible persons, that is, not the formation of the militia and armed forces, but simply the distribution of weapons, also considered as a crime.
Naturally, various criminal groups, banal bandits, will acquire weapons in the first place, for them it is the only chance to acquire combat weapons.
The release of prisoners convicted of serious crimes, due to the fact that they have combat experience, is also something, that can be considered a crime.
Ukrainian nazis are criminals and conduct criminal acts.
And I hope that ones, that survive, after the war will pay for it.
And especially strictly they should pay for the use of nuclear energy objects as a shield!
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