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The southern city of Mykolaiv has found itself on the front line of the fight for almost all of the war thus far, with nearby Kherson occupied by Russia.
The uptick in strikes have added another element to deal with for a city that has known little but tension for months.
FRANCE 24’s reporters Luke Shrago, Taline Oundjian and Achraf Abid went to Mykolaiv to find out just how its residents - and defenders - were coping.
Южный город Николаев находился на передовой почти всю войну, а соседний Херсон был оккупирован Россией. Всплеск забастовок добавил еще один элемент, с которым приходится иметь дело городу, который в течение нескольких месяцев не знал ничего, кроме напряженности.
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"Not every civilian death is necessarily illegal." Raids on cities or villages, bombing residential buildings or schools, and even the killing of groups of civilians do not necessarily amount to war crimes — if their military necessity is justified.
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It is also illegal to target objectives that are "expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objectives, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated," according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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