Today there has been an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In
the armed conflict there are differences in das sein and das solen. The fact is that
in the international armed conflict there has been a violation of the Distinction
Principle. The type of research used in this study is normative legal research that
uses a qualitative method analyses process by comparing the legal regulations of
the 1949 Geneva Convention, the 1907 Hague Convention, Additional Protocol I,
and Customary International Humanitarian Law which underlies the Distinction
Principle to be compared in the situation of facts in the field in the Armed Conflict
between Russia and Ukraine. The results found that there has been a violation of
the principle of distinction (distinction principle) by means of willful killings
towards civilians and indiscriminate attacks Based on the violations mentioned, the
Russian State can be sanctioned in the form of: 1. Complain, 2. Compensation, 3.
Reprisals, 4. Condemnation of the caught individual.