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I believe they are. It's easy to commit technical war crimes. The fog of war affects the small scale as well as the large and civilians get caught in the way and the wrong weapons get used on the wrong targets and heavy ordnance gets mistargeted. That's why war ought to be the last alternative and not used mainly to grab a warm-water port.

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I came here to say this too. War crimes happen in every war, even from the most disciplined army. Undisciplined armies or armies that are trying to spread terror as a strategy do it much more, but neither describes present day Russia.

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The difference is if war crimes are done by sociopaths at the front line who joined the army to do exactly this, or if the higher command has decided to ignore the Geneva Convention, for example to incite panic like ISIS in Syria or to completely burn a country into the ground like the US in Iraq.