UDK 341.322.5 Военные преступления
The problems of criminal legal assessment of military personnel's actions related to causing harm during hostilities, regulated by international law, are not fully implemented in the Russian legal system. In particular, there are no norms in Chapter 8 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation that exclude the criminality of an act related to the murder of enemy army soldiers during an armed conflict. The article substantiates the need to classify these actions as socially useful, and their inclusion in the list of circumstances excluding criminal liability.
military personnel, murder, fighting, crime, military violence, combatant
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