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The widow asked the Russian soldier what he felt when he killed her husband. "Fear," he said. "I understand you probably won't be able to forgive me. But I ask for your forgiveness."

US President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday to discuss their NATO membership bids, while Ukraine said no military option was left to rescue the soldiers still inside a steel plant besieged by Russian forces. Moscow's troops have been accused of widespread atrocities against…

A Russian soldier agrees he is "totally" guilty of murdering an unarmed Ukrainian. Ukraine has so far identified more than 10,000 possible war crimes.

A new report from Human Rights Watch features a catalogue of "abhorrent, unlawful, and cruel" war crimes committed by Vladimir Putin's forces since the invasion began in February

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is facing the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Russian soldier could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old unarmed civilian in the head.

One of the last remaining fugitives sought by a U.N. tribunal over his alleged key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide was confirmed dead and the case against him closed, U.N. war crimes prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in a statement on Wednesday.

A leading human rights watchdog said on Wednesday it had documented further cases of "apparent war crimes" by Russian troops in two regions in Ukraine.

Ukraine said it hopes for a prisoner swap but Russia has said some soldiers could be investigated for war crimes

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin faces life in prison