FYI if you use the link flag and place an ! in front we will see the image here without clicking.

My theory is thick cloud cover

In a combat zone you are considered combat effective until proven otherwise. This is not a warcrime. Faking an injured leg or being dead are commonly done to avoid getting droned. Not seeing a weapon isn’t an excuse either. Grenade on the belt, or sidearm in the coat are both likely possibilities. You don’t know and until you do it is safer to take them out then apply warm and fuzzy civilian sensibilities to the problem.

This is without a doubt a war crime

There are many doubts. He could be faking injury, drunk, still armed. The observer drone who suspected incapacitation was not the one attacking so you’d have to prove the actual attacking drone operator believed the target was incapacitated. Injured =/ incapacitated and his presence alone at the front occupies enemy territory which means they are a participant.

The bounds on what are ‘reasonable’ are very different in war than civilian life. This tendency to jump to ‘ope warcrime’ is as irrational as saying someone with an automatic weapon firing a burst commits a warcrime when the second round in a row strikes the victim. ‘They were injured with the first bullet so it is a warcrime and automatic weapons must be prohibited by law’!

Had this soldier been on a stretcher, and/or being attended by an unarmed someone with a red cross on their arm, or had waved a white anything in the air, I’d agree with calling it a warcrime. A still conscious soldier being tossed out on their ass by 2 armed soldiers and ‘appearing injured’ in this era where the enemy feigns injury/death to avoid drone strikes is not hors de combat.

The og version isn’t much better.

Ukraine’s Moscow-malleting doodlebug missile is about to become very important

That said ‘completes development’ instead of ‘develops’ would have been an, unlikely in this inexplicable era of minimum syllable headlines, improvement.

Okay @wilshire, of the myriad videos I’ve seen in my time as mod here you finally found one that made me say ‘W.T.F.’ out loud. 😂

Banned for depiction of a human centipede! 😋

Credit: @LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz

Read the message. Didn’t listen to it. Your gripes are out of scope. Take this to another community specifically there to discuss your issues. Might I suggest !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Also, (edit: AFAIK) that post was not deleted by a mod or admin. It was edited to say Permanently Deleted and deleted by the user.

This is off topic. The purpose of this community is not to talk smack about other instances/communities/moderators, but to discuss Ukraine and relevant news.

My understanding is that the .ml is for “marxist-leninist” which may or may not help explain things for you. Regardless of whether this is correct, or does answer the question, this is post is getting locked and should be asked elsewhere.

yes

@Sibbo@sopuli.xyz What is NSFW?

I call BS. Calling for war crimes violates R1 and gets dealt with. If you see it report it.

the proposed “flag the whole Ukraine community NSFW” approach has.

To be clear, I was not proposing keeping this community flagged NSFW permanently. That was a quick, naive solution I temporarily implemented not realizing how much of an effect it would have. I’m really asking ‘what content should be required to have a NSFW flag?’, and unless you have additional concerns we’ve settled on flagging combat videos that show the people involved (see pinned post / sidebar).

Sometimes stuff gets through for longer than it should /shrug

The rule is right there on the side bar and has been for as long as I remember.

@LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz this will probably affect you most. Thoughts?

All combat footage should probably be flagged nsfw,

I think that is too aggressive. There is all kinds of footage that is clearly safe (eg: drone on drone).

I’m thinking a rule requiring NSFW for combat footage where bodies (living or otherwise) are visible.

I’m being objective. It is an assumption either way as there is no concrete evidence visible in the video. Do you think every drone cam that cuts to static should be flagged as NSFW?

What they ‘think’ was the last moments. The follow-up drone shows no body, or even blood, so it is likely they got away.

While it has been public since late '22 that special forces from a few NATO countries are in Ukraine for advisory and training purposes, I am not aware of any credible evidence for them participating in front line fighting (unofficial/volunteers don’t count).

FTR it is an obvious typo: the correct year is 1895