A 21 -year -old Russian soldier was sentenced to a life imprisonment by the Ukraine Court on Monday for killing an unarmed Civil Ukrainian civilian, sealing the first guilt for war crimes since the Moscow invasion three months ago.Vadim Shishimarin pleaded guilty for shooting a Civil Ukraine citizen in the head in a village in Northeast Sumy on the early days of the war.
The sentence came when the three -month -old war helped encourage the number of people who fled around the world to the highest level at the record level, according to the United Nations.
Who is Vadim Shishimarin?
Shishimarin from Irkutsk in Siberia has claimed to shoot down a 62 -year -old man near the Chupakhivka central village to prevent him reporting the piracy of the car by escaping from Russian troops.
“With this first trial, we send a clear signal that every perpetrator, every person who ordered or helped in the crime commission in Ukraine will not avoid responsibility,” prosecutor General Ukraine Iryna Venediktova Tweeted. The Shishimarin court opened on May 13 when he made a short court performance while the lawyer and judge discussed procedural issues.
What happened on February 28?
On February 28, Shishimarin and a group of Russian troops fled from Ukraine forces, according to Venediktova’s Facebook account.Russia allegedly fired on a private car and grabbed a vehicle, then went to Chupakhivka, a village about 200 miles east of Kyiv.
On the street, the Attorney General accused, Russian army of seeing a man walking on the sidewalk and talking on his phone.Shyshimarin was ordered to kill the man so he would not be able to report it to the Ukraine military authority.