Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 4 days agoUkraine strikes Moscow’s largest oil refinery, 15 kilometers from the Kremlineuromaidanpress.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down10
arrow-up1143arrow-down1external-linkUkraine strikes Moscow’s largest oil refinery, 15 kilometers from the Kremlineuromaidanpress.comLemmynated@lemmy.zip to World News@quokk.au · 4 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoDon’t oil refineries have civilians working in them?
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoThat doesn’t take away their status as legitimate wartime targets.
minus-squareLibertyLizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoI never said it did, but it does underline the need for careful tactics that minimize civilian harm. Sounds like this one was successful in that which is good.
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 days agoA valid point to raise, but one worthy of debate. There’s a difference between a bunch of monks, and a bunch of state-aligned gas workers. Perhaps not much, but, still, something worthy of a conversation. I’m not trying to excuse civilian deaths, but there is a difference between the two
Don’t oil refineries have civilians working in them?
That doesn’t take away their status as legitimate wartime targets.
I never said it did, but it does underline the need for careful tactics that minimize civilian harm.
Sounds like this one was successful in that which is good.
A valid point to raise, but one worthy of debate.
There’s a difference between a bunch of monks, and a bunch of state-aligned gas workers. Perhaps not much, but, still, something worthy of a conversation.
I’m not trying to excuse civilian deaths, but there is a difference between the two