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Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin is accused of shooting and killing a Ukrainian civilian in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region during the early days of the war.
Ukraine (UkraineA court on Monday sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life imprisonment for killing a citizen of the country. He has been sentenced for the first time in a war crimes trial since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin (Vadim Shishimarin) is accused of shooting and killing a Ukrainian civilian in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region during the early days of the war. Russian soldier (Russian Soldier War Crimes) accepted his guilt and made a statement that he shot the Ukrainian citizen because he was ordered to do so.
Sergeant Vadim Shishmarin told the court that an officer said the Ukrainian man talking on his mobile phone could inform Ukrainian soldiers about their location. Sentencing Serhi Agafonov, 21-year-old Vadim shot a man at the behest of his high-ranking officer. He was a tank commander in the Russian army. Last Wednesday, Vadim Shishmarin was found guilty of the shooting of 62-year-old Alexander Shelyapov in northeast Ukraine. Ukrainian lawyers told the judge that the Russian soldier should be jailed for life.
Who is Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin?
Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin is a resident of Irkutsk, Siberia. He is a tank commander in the Russian army. A 62-year-old man was shot dead by a Russian soldier in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region. Shishimarin feared that the elders might reveal their location. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova tweeted: “With this first sentence, we have indicated that every criminal, every individual who played a role in a war crime in Ukraine. He cannot run away from his responsibilities. The trial against Shishimrin started on May 13. During this he came to court several times.
After all, what happened on February 28?
According to the Facebook account of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova, on February 28, Shishmarin and a group of Russian soldiers were fleeing in fear from the Ukrainian army. During this, allegedly Russian soldiers opened fire on a private car and stopped it. After that he took it away. Russian soldiers boarded it and proceeded towards the village of Chupakiva, located 200 miles east of Kyiv. Ukrainian prosecutors said that on the way, Russian soldiers saw a man walking along the way, who was talking on the phone. Shishimarin was then ordered to shoot the man. He did the same and killed the person.
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