The trial of 21-year-old tank commander Vadim Shishimarin was the first war crimes trial stemming from Moscow’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
In a significant development, a Ukrainian court on Monday sentenced a Russian soldier to life imprisonment for killing an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, as the first war crimes trial, stemming from Moscow’s February 24 invasion of the east European nation, came to an end.
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Delivering the sentence, Judge Serhiy Agafonov said 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin, a tank commander, carried out a ‘criminal order’ from a soldier of a higher rank by firing several shots at the victim’s head from an automatic weapon.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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