Ignoring the law Ukrainian style - What is now left of a just war?
In the current Czech public debate, the prevailing opinion is that "we have no right" to demand that Ukrainians abide by international law in their war against the Russian occupiers, "because they are fighting for us and we are not helping them". The problem, of course, is that if we accept the premise that the Ukrainian army is not obliged to protect civilians in the first place by all available means (even though, as the Human Rights Watch report points out, that is precisely what it is obliged to do not only by international law but also by its own operational regulations), we can no longer judge by any solid criteria whether Ukraine is still fighting a just war at all.