Killing children or torturing innocent people are absolutely war crimes. When talking about the Ukraine conflict specifically, those two are actually the most common ones that I think of (in addition to destroying civilian infrastructure like hospitals or power stations).
Ukraine isn’t doing either of those things, on any scale that’s relevant, and I don’t think they should start, for reasons I’ve already touched on. They won’t have all that much of a productive effective on fiercely “fighting the war.” That’s actually exactly a big part of what makes them war crimes (where something like blowing up an oil refinery is not.)
It doesn’t mean either of those things.
Killing children or torturing innocent people are absolutely war crimes. When talking about the Ukraine conflict specifically, those two are actually the most common ones that I think of (in addition to destroying civilian infrastructure like hospitals or power stations).
Ukraine isn’t doing either of those things, on any scale that’s relevant, and I don’t think they should start, for reasons I’ve already touched on. They won’t have all that much of a productive effective on fiercely “fighting the war.” That’s actually exactly a big part of what makes them war crimes (where something like blowing up an oil refinery is not.)
Yes those two things are war crimes but war crimes is a general term and doesnt specifically mean killing children and torturing people.