Captured Russian pulls pin on grenade

Drone footage shows a captured Russian soldier having his body armor removed by Ukrainian troops. If you watch closely he reaches for, and pulls out, a fragmentation grenade. He pulls the pin and throws the explosive device, an action that gets him promptly shot do death. For whatever reason, the grenade doesn't detonate, so no casualties were sustained by the Ukrainians. The phrase "war crime" gets thrown around in this conflict daily, but many of the instances are just the unfortunate brutality of war. This video actually shows a war crime by the now slain Russian soldier. Fake surrendering, known legally as perfidy, is a war crime under international humanitarian law, specifically Protocol I of the Geneva Convention. The reason it is outlawed is because it leads to more captives being executed as the risks of death or injury now outweigh the perks of taking your foe alive.