Russian soldier pleads guilty in Ukraine's 1st war crimes trial

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing an unarmed civilian.

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region on Feb. 28, four days into the invasion.

Shishimarin, a captured member of a Russian tank unit, was prosecuted under a section of the Ukrainian criminal code that addresses the laws and customs of war.

Prosecutor Andriy Siniuk said outside the Kyiv court that pleading guilty could serve as a "mitigating circumstance” in the Court’s decision to convict him of a war crime and there was a witness to the killing.

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[patsow]

Question how many war crime trials did Americans face during the illegal operation in the Middle East which claimed over 370, 000 civilian lives

[lesbooth]

These trials are a joke, their bone is fair as a stacked deck in poker, zielinsky and NATO should be on trial,

[tamaraknyazkova]

Today 600 more from “ above ” surrounded, but I don’t think fake media will tell you about

[denisekay]

There's still ongoing tension and they're already dealing with war crimes? That's very swift. 🕵️‍♂️

[fahiemkahn]

Ukraine said when their soldiers surrender "" The 82nd day of our defense is coming to an end. A difficult day. But this day, like all others, is aimed precisely at saving our country and our people, " Zelensky said."" Now why did he not save ALL of this country and people before it started. They had a chance but instead it was more important to satisfy NATO/ AMERICA / WEST

[shannond]

What a joke this has become. Finding this kid guilty is purely symbolic....where those truely responsible for the horror are nowhere to be seen. Why? Because they will not cower under the pressure that this kid has clearly been put under. Always the down the juniors...while the top dogs are left untouched. Pretty much the same as in politics and society as a whole. Yay...you got someone to admit to your war crimes I ain't buying it.

[rookerycephapirin]

So happy to be on the right side of history. I know it to be true because the television tells me what to think and do.

[BenWinder]

Poor kid. He tries to rid ukraine of nazis and gets caught by them.

[dustingillard]

When do we hold the Azov battalion accountable ?

[kingdingaling]

So many Russian bots on the thread. 😄 🤣 😂

[dentray]

Coincides with Azov surrender, leniency for this Russian soldier if given will be expected even demanded for the Azov prisoners by world media! Reality TV has taught governing bodies a lot about how public opinion can easily be manipulated in real life.

[johnarthur]

guilty or be murdered no doubt. A Ukrainian officer who at one point commanded the notorious neo-Nazi Azov regiment has gloated on social media over graphic photos of dead members of an opposition party. The activists “disappeared” from the Ukrainian-held city of Severodonetsk in early March and appear to have been extrajudicially executed, with Maksim Zhorin implying such a fate awaits all “traitors.”

[shannond]

Did he even have legal representation? Trial? Circus!

[goddesssalem]

Shocking propaganda, and you folks lap it up

[marcelnowakowski]

The most accurate - in my humble opinion - description of soldiers was given by a former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
He nailed it 100%
Just google: Kissinger, military quote.
You will not be sorry to learn.
Btw, I was a drafted soldier myself for over 2 years in the then-Communist Polish Army so I know about the military.

[kilo]

So why will he be part of the prisoner exchange.

[justworkingfortheweekend]

How about Russia trades him for a Ukraine prisoner

[JackieBillyTom]

Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me

[betchied]

Kawawa naman siya dahil sa utos sa knya possible siyang mkulong ng habang buhay ang bata pa nya

[hemantchaudhari]

Trials are waste of all good on earth. War was ordered, and have nobearing what happened at war. Everything is fair in war. Ukraine unknowingly and others who helped stand trial. Exchange POW is right around. Country has right to court martial and not for trials. That is illegal trial for pow. Pow can be kept in prison without trial or release. Their cannot be court trials. Excuse them court. Leave them exclusively. Let them have their personal life because war wasn't on their mind. No pow is guilty of war crime that is bourgeois and derived language word prison, captive etc. No trials cannot be allowed allowed, any such trial is to run media and salaries machine, it is not empty revenge and is inhumane. Benefits of doubt, to all pow, war trials must be banned even if wanted by anybody.