He will be the first Russian soldier to be tried for war crimes committed in Ukraine. Vadim Shishimarin, 21-year-old Russian sergeant of the 32010-4th Panzer Kantemirov Division of the Moscow Region, according to the statement of the Ukrainian Attorney General’s Office, on February 28 would 62-year-old unarmed civilian killed who was riding a bicycle in the village of Chupakhivka, in the northeastern Sumy region.
«We are starting a trial not in absentia, but directly with the person who killed a civilian, ”explained Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova. “Shishimarin is physically in Ukraine.”
Violations of the laws governing the behavior of states during conflicts are considered war crimes. Among these, deliberate attack on civilians, torture of prisoners, attacks on hospitals and schools.
According to investigations by the Ukrainian security service it established that on February 28, Shishimarin fled with four other soldiers to escape the Ukrainian forces. Together, the military fired at a private car and confiscated it, then entered Chupakhivka. But along the way they ran into a man who was cycling back home and one of the military ordered Shishimarin to kill him so that he would not report them. The attorney general’s statement says that “the defendant fired several shots through the car window hitting the 62-year-old victim in the head. The man died instantly, a few tens of meters from his house ».
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The Russian soldier is accused of violating the laws of war and premeditated murder and the penalty is from 10 to 15 years, up to life imprisonment.
Since the invasion, more than 10,700 crimes have been recorded by the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. Some have been dismissed, but on others, such as that of Vadim Shishimarin, the investigations have been completed and the first proceedings are about to begin.
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Source: Vanity Fair
