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Baby faced Russian soldier, 21, sentenced to life in prison at Kyiv war crimes trial

Sgt Vadim Shishimarin admitted shooting the civilian in the head in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region

Evening Standard · May 23, 2022

Russian soldier found guilty, sentenced to life in jail, for Ukraine war crimes

A court in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday ruled that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who admitted killing a civilian was guilty of war crimes. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Radio France Internationale · May 23, 2022

Russian soldier given life prison sentence for war crimes in Ukraine conflict

Vadim Shishimarin pleaded guilty to killing a civilian on May 18

Chronicle Live · May 23, 2022

Russian soldier, 21, jailed for life for war crime in Ukraine

Vadim Shishimarin fired at a civilian at the start of the conflict

Wales Online · May 23, 2022

Russian soldier jailed for life in first war crimes trial of Ukraine war

A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison on Monday for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's invasion.

Reuters · May 23, 2022

Russian soldier jailed for life after killing civilian in first war crimes trial

Russian tank commander Vadim Shishimarin, 21, had pleaded guilty to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka on February 28 after being ordered to shoot him - just days after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to cross the border into Ukraine

Daily Mirror · May 23, 2022

War crimes verdict due in Kyiv court; Russian eastern offensive intensifies

A verdict is due on Monday in the Ukraine conflict's first war crimes trial. The hearing in Kyiv, a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence, comes as international institutions conduct their own investigations into killings that have blighted cities like Bucha and Mariupol.

Radio France Internationale · May 23, 2022

War Crimes Verdict Looms as Russian Offensive Intensifies

With a verdict due Monday in the conflict’s first war crimes trial, Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine is only intensifying, with the city of Severodonetsk under "round-the-clock" bombardment as Russian troops attempt its encirclement. The trial in Kyiv -- seen as a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 23, 2022

Russia Says Mariupol Battle at End as Ukrainian Defenders Surrender

Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms. Moscow's flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 21, 2022

Vadim Shishimarin, Russian soldier facing war crimes trial in Kyiv, says he did not want to kill Ukrainian civilian

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the invasion of Ukraine began tells a court he had not wanted to kill an unarmed civilian and he sincerely repented.

ABC News · May 21, 2022