A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian
Highlights
- Sgt.
- Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for allegedly shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head.
- Shishhimarin was a captured member of a Russian tank unit.
- He was prosecuted under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war.
- Investigators are investigating allegations that Russian troops violated Ukrainian and international law by killing, torturing and abusing possibly thousands of Ukrainian civilians.
- Investigators have been collecting evidence of possible war crimes to bring before the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Ukraine.