Wounded Russian cut in half by drone

Brutal reconnaissance drone footage released by Ukrainian sources captures the moment a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier is killed in an FPV drone attack. From the footage, it's clear that the Russian soldier is seriously wounded as evidenced by the heavy limp, but the context of the strike is incomplete as we don't know what occurred before the attack. The thing to note about this is that a wounded and retreating soldier, even if unarmed, is not considered a non-combatant. Many would take to the streets here and claim that the Soldier posed no threat, so he is out of combat and not a legitimate military target. Unfortunately, that's not how reality or the laws of war work. What you're witnessing here is the exploitation of a wounded combatant. Killing him prevents the soldier from returning with information, and from participating in a counter-attack or future offensive operations. The soldier isn't considered a non-combatant until he officially surrenders to the other side, which is a truly sticky situation that likely warrant a second look in the new age of autonomous and drone warfare. Serious questions will need to be asked later down the road, like "Can a soldier surrender to a drone?" or "Is an unarmed and wounded individual on the battlefield still a legitimate military target for drones?" But, until those questions are asked, and new answers are determined, we'll continue to see footage like this coming out of modern battlefields.