Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Thursday, May 19, 2022
Ukraine prosecutors seek life for Russian soldier in war crimes trial

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin sits in the defendant's box at the opening of his trial on a charge of war crimes for having killed a civilian, in the Solomyansky district court in Kyiv on May 18, 2022. (AFP/Genya SAVILOV)
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian prosecutors request a life sentence for the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes since the start of Moscow’s invasion, an AFP reporter in the Kyiv courtroom says.
A prosecutor asks the judge to “give a sentence in the form of life imprisonment” to 21-year-old Russian army sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, who admitted to killing a 62-year-old civilian in the first days of the Russian offensive.
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