First trial for atrocities: Russian soldier sentenced to life imprisonment

Status: 05/23/2022 12:27 p.m

A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial. The defendant had confessed to killing an unarmed civilian.

A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Ukraine’s first war crimes trial. The court in Kyiv found it proven that the 21-year-old tanker had shot dead a 62-year-old civilian in the Sumy region. It was the first trial over Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

The convict had confessed to the crime and stated that he had been ordered to do it by a superior. The man was talking on his cell phone. The superior said he could pass on the positions of the Russian soldiers to the Ukrainian troops, so he should be shot. The soldier then shot the man in the head.

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