“Found these in the Zaporizhzhya direction. The enemy is throwing chocolates with an explosive mechanism. Do not open them under any circumstances. Our guy was lucky that it did not detonate, otherwise he could have ended up crippled. I know guys whose fingers were torn off like that.”
We’re… supposed to believe Russia!? According to them, they still haven’t violently invaded Ukraine, kidnapped children, or committed war crimes!
(To be clear, any war crimes need to be stopped, investigated, and prosecuted.)
EDIT: Wait, there’s not even an article to look into sources? Just text and an image!? If this isn’t my specific app not cross-linking properly, this post has to violate community rules, right? Or at least it should…
Come into my country, you get what you get.
Mirror + bandaid + paperclip + packing tape = boom? It’s like a bad 80s tv show.
Ukrainians are accusing Russia of the same thing. Plus ya know… Russia is literally poisoning water supplies
and executing prisoners of war
And are constantly caught lying.
Wouldn’t Ukraine just drop bombs from drones like they’ve been doing?
Fuck russia.
Fuck the Kremlin. Broad hatred for the entire country will only drive the decent Russians into the Kremlin’s
armstentacles
That does seem like something that would violate some rules-of-war convention.
Booby-trapping something that might be mistaken by civilians as a legitimate humanitarian aid drop risks non-combatant casualties and makes it harder for actual aid operations to operate.
That’s true! If it happened. Does anyone have any source at all for this from any reputable news organization?
Yup. I read the convention on mines recently in the wake of the pagers thing. Even if chocolate isn’t humanitarian aid, portable booby trapped non-military items are forbidden if they self-trigger. (The pagers actually seem fine by the copy I read, because being remote-controlled makes them “other devices”)
Edit: And also specifically food or drink.
Ah, this reminds the time when cluster munitions were bright yellow, so you could spot them and stay away.
And food aid packages were bright yellow, so you could spot them and easily collect them.
Yeah…
Oh man, when was that?
During the early occupation of Afghanistan after 2001. Here’s a news article from 2003 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2912617.stm
Note that that wasn’t on purpose.
Wow. I guess those two teams didn’t talk often, which tracks.
Happy cake day!
If it is something they’re actually doing, I agree. But this image looks like a crafts project gone wrong. Are we supposed to believe that the bit a the bottom is like, high explosive or something and that tiny wire is the primer?
Why would non-combatants be in the trenches?
It’s an argument you could make, but there’s already a convention against these specific types of weapon, even if you promise to be careful to clear them all when you’re done.
Explosives don’t seem smart. Why didn’t they poison the chocolate instead? The enemy opens the chocolate, sees nothing wrong with it, shares it with their mates, and then now you’ve got five casualties who are none the wiser. Is that against the rules of war or something?
deleted by creator
Booby trapping violate the same traties, especially hiding explosives in food. If ukrained wanted to commit war crimes, they would choose the smart way, this is just idiotic russians feeding lies to idiotic people
I mean, so does an explosive charge in this specific context.
Willy Wonka sends his regards
Why bother with chocolate at all? Just wrap c4 in a Freddo wrapper.
Thats at best a gps chip lol
Now that would be smart and legal.
I agree the round disc and deliberately folded wire screams something to do with RF, but a) how powered and for how long? and b) why a chocolate bar if so?
It’s not like they hid a transmitter inside something that wouldn’t be taken apart or eaten, this was going to get discovered. Sneak a transmitter inside a PKM or radio, then let it be “captured” by the Russians.
The wire in the middle is bent and acts as a spring. The metal disk on top slaps the tan paper on bottom when the wrapper is removed. No power, all mechanical.
a) how powered and for how long?
Might even be passive, a tuned resonator. Heck it could be a bug, IIRC ironically passive bugs are (age-old) soviet tech. Imagine sweeping the whole frequency spectrum for resonators with 50s tech they were a nightmare to screen for.
and b) why a chocolate bar if so?
Maybe the idea is to track people for some time to gather intelligence on trench operations? Most probably aren’t going to eat the thing right away.
Nice Halloween touch…victory to Ukraine. LOL, if vodka bottles were used…
Send more weapons! Allow use on military targets in russia!
Removed by mod
What?
Yeah, this definitely looks like airdropped chocolate to me bro.
