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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Monday, May 23, 2022
Russian soldier found guilty of war crimes in Kyiv court, given life sentence
Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin listens to his translator during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
A Kyiv court rules that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian is guilty of war crimes and hands him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow’s forces since their invasion.
“The court has found that [Vadim] Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy Agafonov says. Shishimarin, a Russian sergeant, admitted in court to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the first days of the Kremlin’s offensive in northeast Ukraine.
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