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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.
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.
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.
A 21-year-old Russian soldier went on trial Friday in Kyiv for the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first war crime prosecution of a member of the Russian military from 11 weeks of bloodshed in Ukraine. 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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