I haven’t seen any news outlets mention this, yet. Seems like they should have by now.
Nice! Thanks!
ETA: No mention of drones coming out of a grain car. That’s the part I found particularly interesting.
I don’t want to see the video footage. My mental picture of this event is glorious.
This is amazing.
The Kremlin has always been paranoid. And now, Ukraine is giving them something to be paranoid about. Every transport is a risk. Every storage container. Every warehouse. I doubt the Kremlin has enough loyalty to have people screen everything that can potentially have explosive drones.
What’s better? I would be willing to bet that the transporting and storage of the drones is entirely unknown by the drivers and workers. I’ll bet someone was paid to get “sanctioned supplies” into Russia. Hell, they could actually be sending them with sanctioned stuff.
This could be a devastating psychological warfare strategy that may just work against the world’s biggest psychological threat.
isn’t using civilian infrastructure to hide military stuff like a warcrime or illegal
The concept of a war crime has not existed for at least 50 years now.
apparently:
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Loss of Protected Status:
- Civilian transport loses its legal protection if used for military purposes (e.g., transporting weapons or combatants).
- Once identified as a military objective, it becomes a lawful target for attack, endangering civilians nearby.
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Perfidy (Treachery):
- Prohibited under Article 37 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.
- Using civilian symbols (e.g., Red Cross/Red Crescent emblems, UN markings) to disguise military operations constitutes perfidy.
- Example: Hiding missiles in an ambulance marked with a red cross to deceive the enemy.
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War Crimes under the Rome Statute:
- Intentionally using protected civilian objects to shield military operations qualifies as a war crime (Article 8(2)(b)(xxiii)).
To me that says no.
There was no civilian aid symbology as far as we know, no UN, etc. Russia probably wouldn’t allow them in anyway.
So TL;DR, no, this is legitimate deception, as long as it’s not coming from anything that pretends to be humanitarian aid or other protected status
The only potentially war-crime part is making Russian civilians unwitting accomplices and potential targets.
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These drones are beginning to be like bed bugs, the Russians are going to wonder if they’re hiding in everything, that’s hilarious.
Keep it up Ukraine
They should hide them in toilets and washing machines near the front line, eventually they’ll end up back in Russia.
That’s overkill. Better to just stick a block of C4 under the seat with a pressure switch so that when you plop your Rusky ass down you get inducted into the Russian space program.
The comic made me actually laugh. Well done.
Slava Ukraini
I love that meme with the hat. Was also published with a truck after this weeks grandios achievements against the orc bombers.
Why is the train wearing a hat?
Only a matter of time before a train rolls into Moscow and drones start flying everywhere.
The Ukrainians have it down to a science now.
I like to think Ukraine has months worth of attacks like this that catch Russia completely with their pants down.
The Russians entire ideology centres around dick swinging, so it’s no surprise their pants are down and will continue to be down because it’s all they know.
“Destroying 13 tanks” or they just fell from platforms? Because falling from the RW platform isn’t enough to destroy a tank.
Baaed off the translation post, I would say they blew the engine and brought the train to a stop then they came in and destroyed all the equipment.
“The first blow was delivered to the locomotive, after which the train began to lose speed and was stopped. The enemy destroyed most of the equipment without hindrance.”
Some bad times for Russian internal security forces.
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