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The conflict in Ukraine has brought a number of innovations to international humanitarian law. One of the least analyzed innovations has been one of the most arcane: Authorities in the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, are using a rarely studied and even more rarely litigated provision of Additional Protocol I (API) to the Geneva Conventions to charge captured foreign fighters with mercenarism. While some innovations from the Ukrainian conflict may have lasting value, this one
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