the guy who killed him is also a mercenary. and poles live in ukraine, there are lawful combatants from the polish citizens of ukraine.
e: the article says “volunteer” but that still seems like something that would need a trial to determine whether they lacked protections before a summary execution. that should apply to any participants from neighboring countries’ ethnicities
Sounds like a foreign mercenary to which the laws of war relating to prisoners of war don’t apply.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Bad take. Killing prisoners is unacceptable if it isn’t in crisis or revolution.
Counterpoint: every last Azovite should have been lined up and shot after Mariupol, not bartered back to Ukraine in prisoner exchanges.
I don’t think volunteers in the army itself count as mercenaries. Certainly I see no reason why international law as such doesn’t apply to them.
I really don’t think it is good to justify arbitrary executions of PoWs.
the guy who killed him is also a mercenary. and poles live in ukraine, there are lawful combatants from the polish citizens of ukraine.
e: the article says “volunteer” but that still seems like something that would need a trial to determine whether they lacked protections before a summary execution. that should apply to any participants from neighboring countries’ ethnicities