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A 21-year-old Russian soldier pleads guilty to killing an unarmed Ukrainian civilian at a war crimes trial in Kyiv, in the first such case to go to court since the start of the invasion. Vadim Shishimarin from Irkutsk in Siberia admits to gunning down the 62-year-old man near the central village of Chupakhivka to prevent him from reporting a carjacking by fleeing Russian troops. He faces possible life imprisonment for war crimes and premeditated murder after the case is heard by a district court in Kyiv. For more analysis on the trial, FRANCE 24 is joined by Diane Orentlicher, Professor of International Law at American University’s Washington College of Law. It's very striking to her how the Ukrainian government is addressing the Russian invasion and the ensuing atrocities "through a framework of law." And so as Ukraine investigates "war crimes in real-time," something considered unprecedented, Professor Orentlicher is also struck by "how much emphasis the government has placed on having fair proceedings, which is difficult to do in the heat of battle."
A Kyiv court rules that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian is guilty of war crimes and sentences him to life in prison. Vadim Shishimarin, a captive Russian sergeant, has admitted to killing 62-year-old villager Oleksandr Shelipov in the first days of the Kremlin's offensive in north-east Ukraine.
Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, has pleaded guilty to shooting dead 62-year-old civilian Oleksandr Shelipov, and asked for 'forgiveness' from his widow in court.
The first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes in Ukraine asks for "forgiveness" in a Kyiv court after he gave a detailed account on how he killed a civilian early in Moscow's invasion.
Ukrainian prosecutors on Thursday requested a life sentence for the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes since the start of Moscow's invasion. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us more.
In a watershed moment, a Russian soldier has gone on trial in Ukraine, after he was accused of murdering an elderly civilian.
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