It is A Normal Practice...

 ... as NYT reports. Nothing new here. 

In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit. A German medic said he was so troubled that he confronted his commander. Others boasted about killings in a group chat.

Atrocities by the US Army personnel, be them active or "volunteer soldiers" are well-documented.  From My Lai to Serbia to Iraq and Afghanistan--the record of atrocities is large and "impressive". Why NYT noticed this only now remains a complete mystery. What is not a mystery is that part of this issue is psychological and is in continuous humiliation of the "finest fighting force in history" in wars of the XX and XXI centuries. American population in general is not conditioned by the warfare and has a cavalier attitude towards it. This also explains why many in US military love those nutjob stories about Red Army raping 100 million German women, about a million of Red Army soldiers executed by NKVD and other smut like this--it is a normal reaction of inferior warriors. 

Here are the results of US personnel operating ATACMS and other strike systems in 404--they are good at hitting civilians. I am sure they will be even awarded when back in the US if they survive. I understand how it is torturous for many men of honor from the US military to see and read it, but that is what the US has become. This particular one was done by US trained and controlled VSU.

A child has been killed and five other people injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Krasnodar Region, local Governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said.Several drones were shot down by air defenses over the town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk on the Azov Sea coast, Kondratyev wrote on Telegram on Friday morning.Some of the debris fell onto a residential area, damaging a three-story apartment block, according to the governor.

But it is always the same pattern--kill defenseless. The US military has to accept the fact that it cannot fight Russia on the battlefield, forget about winning. For many this realization has a profound psychological effect and some "sublimate" this complex of inferiority in killing POWs. But then again: 

That's the legacy.