The panel of judges of the Kyiv Court of Appeal commuted the sentence of the Russian military Vadim Shishimarin, replacing him with life imprisonment for 15 years in prison. Grati reports this.
< span class="mz-publish-context-cite__text_meta">OnlineThe first trial of the Russian military in Ukraine. The verdict
On May 23, the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv found the tanker guilty of violating the laws and customs of war (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) due to the murder of a civilian Alexander Shelipov. According to investigators, on February 28, a military man fired several shots at a man with a machine gun while driving past him in a stolen car.
Shishimarin admitted his guilt and repented. The tanker claimed that Ensign Kafurov first ordered him to shoot at Shelipov, but he refused. Then another military man forced Shishimarin to kill a civilian, “arguing that he would hand us over,” the tanker recalled in court. =»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ /> The Russian military is promised big money in Ukraine, but they are paid much less. What can soldiers — or their relatives — really count on