Ukraine’s prosecutor general said that a 21-year-old Russian soldier accused of shooting dead a civilian on a bicycle and leaving him on the side of the road would be the first Russian military member to appear in court in Ukraine for crimes against him. evil war since the invasion. Wednesday.
Soldiers being detained in Ukraine and identified by the prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, as Sgt. Vadim Shysimarin. According to Venediktova, this is what Ukraine’s intelligence agency, the SBU, found during its investigation:
On February 28, four days after the invasion of Russia, Sergeant Shysimarin and four other servicemen stole a car while fleeing Ukrainian forces and drove to the village of Chupakhivka in the Sumy region, about 100 miles from Kyiv. 200 km to the east. There, they saw an unarmed 62-year-old man riding a bicycle by the side of the road and talking on the phone.
Sergeant Shysimarin was ordered to kill the man so he wouldn’t report them. He fired a Kalashnikov rifle from a car window into the man’s head and killed him on the spot, just a few dozen meters from his house.
Sergeant Shysimarin faces 10 to 15 years in prison. It was not immediately clear how he was detained or when the landmark trial might begin.
Both Ukrainian and international investigators have made several attempts to document evidence of potential war crimes in areas where Russian forces have retreated. Hundreds of bodies have been recovered for forensic examination and UN officials are rushing to provide more resources to Ukrainian authorities to help with the growing prosecution. Report on rape by Russian soldiers.
