Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the north-eastern Sumy region on February 28.
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Shishimarin said “fully” guilty when asked how he pleaded. The Russian soldier appeared in a glass box in the packed courtroom at Kyiv courthouse, faced with dozens of cameras. He declined to speak when he was asked by the court.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova previously said her office was readying war crimes cases against 41 Russian soldiers for offences that included bombing civilian infrastructure, killing civilians, rape and looting.