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Russian soldier jailed for life after killing civilian in first war crimes trial

Russian tank commander Vadim Shishimarin, 21, had pleaded guilty to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka on February 28 after being ordered to shoot him - just days after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to cross the border into Ukraine

Daily Mirror

War crimes verdict looms as Russian offensive intensifies

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - With a verdict due Monday in the conflict’s first war crimes trial, Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine is only intensifying, with the city of Severodonetsk under "round-the-clock" bombardment as Russian troops attempt its encirclement.

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War Crimes Verdict Looms as Russian Offensive Intensifies

With a verdict due Monday in the conflict’s first war crimes trial, Moscow's offensive in eastern Ukraine is only intensifying, with the city of Severodonetsk under "round-the-clock" bombardment as Russian troops attempt its encirclement. The trial in Kyiv -- seen as a public test of the Ukrainian judicial system's independence…

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Russia Says Mariupol Battle at End as Ukrainian Defenders Surrender

Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms. Moscow's flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly…

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Vadim Shishimarin, Russian soldier facing war crimes trial in Kyiv, says he did not want to kill Ukrainian civilian

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the invasion of Ukraine began tells a court he had not wanted to kill an unarmed civilian and he sincerely repented.

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Russia says Mariupol battle at end as Ukrainian defenders surrender

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms.

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Deliberations start in Russian soldier's war crimes trial

The lawyer for a Russian soldier who is the first to go on trial for an alleged war crime in Ukraine has asked a Kyiv court to acquit his client

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Ukraine orders end to defence of Mariupol

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine on Friday ordered its last troops holed up in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms, while Russia said its months-long operation to capture the strategic port city is now complete.

AFP

‘I did not want to kill,’ Russian soldier tells Ukraine war crimes trial

The judge may hand down a verdict when the court next convenes on Monday

The Independent UK

Russian Soldier in Ukraine War Crimes Trial Says He Did Not Want to Kill

A 21-year-old Russian soldier told a court on Friday he had not wanted to kill an unarmed civilian and that he sincerely repented, as he delivered his final words at the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's Feb. 24 invasion. Vadim Shishimarin, a tank commander, has pleaded guilty to…

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Russian soldier in Ukraine war crimes trial says he did not want to kill

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Russian soldier who killed innocent grandad smirks when told of possible prisoner swap

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelypov, 62, dead with an AK-47 as he pushed his bicycle home in Chupakhivk, just days into the invasion in February

Daily Mirror

Troops who defended Mariupol steel mill registered as POWs

Amid fear of Russian reprisals, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after enduring the merciless assault on Mariupol’s steel factory have been registered as prisoners of war

The Independent UK

Russian soldier in Ukraine war crime trial pleads for forgiveness from victim’s widow

Twnety-one-year-old pleads guilty to shooting pensioner in head several times

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Moscow says hundreds of Ukrainian troops in custody; US Senate approves $40 billion in new aid

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said Thursday that more than 1,700 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered at a steel plant in the conquered city of Mariupol, even as Ukraine claimed battlefield gains elsewhere, continued its first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier and prepared to launch a second.

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Russian soldier asks widow of victim for forgiveness in Ukraine war crimes trial

During the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a 21-year-old Russian soldier asks a Ukrainian widow to forgive him for killing her husband.

Evening Standard

Russian soldier begs his victim’s widow for forgiveness in war crime trial

Sgt Shishimarin told the widow: ‘I realise that you can’t forgive me, but I’m pleading you for forgiveness’

Daily Mirror

Russian soldiers 'held babies hostage and executed a boy on playground' report claims

The Human Rights Watch has uncovered a string of accusations of shocking war crimes said to have been carried out by Russian soldiers on Ukrainian civilians as the invasion began

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Evening Standard

West must put senior Russian figures on trial for war crimes, says ambassador

His comments come as the first Russian soldier accused of war crimes has been put on trial

AFP

Life sentence requested for Russian soldier in Kyiv war crimes trial

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian prosecutors on Thursday requested a life sentence for the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes since the start of Moscow's invasion, AFP journalists in the courtroom reported.

The Independent UK

Russian soldier on trial asks victim's widow to forgive him

A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine has testified that he shot a civilian on orders from two officers

Reuters

Ukraine prosecutor seeks life sentence for Russian soldier in war crimes trial

A Ukrainian state prosecutor asked a court on Thursday to sentence a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's Feb. 24 invasion.

AFP

Ukraine steelworks defenders surrender as Russian pleas for forgiveness

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia said Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, showing some emerging on crutches after an all-out battle that has become emblematic of the nearly three-month-old war.

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Ukraine steelworks defenders surrender but Kyiv vows 'unbreakable' spirit

WEKU

Courtroom drama: Ukrainian widow confronts Russian who shot her husband

The widow asked the Russian soldier what he felt when he killed her husband. "Fear," he said. "I understand you probably won't be able to forgive me. But I ask for your forgiveness."

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