Russian sentenced to life in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial

A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sentenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life in prison – the maximum – amid signs the Kremlin may, in turn, put on trial some of the captured fighters who held out at Mariupol’s steelworks.

In the first of what could be a multitude of war crimes trials inside Ukraine, Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, was sentenced for the killing of a 62-year-old man who was shot in the head in a village in the northeastern Sumy region in the early days of the war. Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating thousands of potential war crimes. Russian forces in Mariupol bombed a theatre where civilians were sheltering and struck a maternity hospital. In the wake of Moscow’s withdrawal from around Kyiv weeks ago, mass graves were discovered and streets were strewn with bodies in towns such as Bucha.

Russian authorities have threatened to hold trials of captured Ukrainians – namely, fighters who held out at Mariupol’s shattered steel plant, the last stronghold of resistance in the strategic southern port city. They surrendered and were taken prisoner last week, at which point Moscow claimed the capture of Mariupol was complete.

Meanwhile, Boris Bondarev, a veteran Russian diplomat at the U.N. office at Geneva, quit and sent a letter denouncing the “aggressive war unleashed” by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bondarev told The Associated Press: “It is intolerable what my government is doing now.”

The guy looks list like Putin.

Appropriate sentence. He admitted to killing an unarmed civilian. WarCrimesOfUkraine

How many Chinese military in Tibet charged with war crimes since 1950?

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A comedian and his kangaroo courts.

I don’t care if he’s just 21. This war criminal should ‘walk up the 13 steps’ where he will ‘get a short drop with a quick stop!’

He'll be exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners rather than serve his sentence.

Russia army goes to free the guy

Looks like a young .......

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