Question: How is it not a War Crime to intentionally blow up a Nuclear Waste Facility?

[TheBlackAdder]

[PortTack]

1. If they do blow it up, they will end their invasion due to high radiation levels

[regnaD kciN]

3. Plus, the prevailing winds...

…would blow the radioactivity right over Belarus and into central Russia.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. That would be incredibly stupid. nt

[TheBlackAdder]

5. It seems to have happened.

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An official familiar with current assessments said Russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository at Chernobyl, and an increase in radiation levels was reported. The increase could not be immediately corroborated.

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2022/02/24/nato-agrees-to-beef-up-eastern-flank-over-ukraine-attack/

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[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. It could be under the Rome statute definitions

But practically speaking, war crimes are only for the defeated.

[TomSlick]

6. I would think it a war crime but that bridge has already been crossed.

Waging a war of aggression is itself a violation of international law.

As stated by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal: "War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."