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Putin’s helicopter ‘fended off drone attack’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] HumongousChungus@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Also, doesn't this direct attack give Russia the ability to go “scorched earth”? I do not want them to but, international law-wise, does this not count for anything?

In this situation it's going to be more about diplomacy and international views than international law. Like, notice this was apparently happening around the prison swap and before that much-vaunted Russian escalation via drones? Meaning the last few days of news about how Russia attacked even while negotiating towards peace are bupkis; the effect is going to be to minimize the level of acceptable retaliation by tricking people into thinking there's nothing to retaliate against.