Slutsky promised to seek the protection of the Russian military Shishimarin

Vadim Shishimarin during a court hearing in Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 24.Leonid Slutsky, head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, head of the Duma committee on international affairs, said that the case of Russian serviceman Vadim Shishimarin was prepared in Ukraine «on the knee» — «we will look for an opportunity to protection of the «Russian military» in the conditions of Ukrainian legal chaos. On Monday, a court in Ukraine sentenced Shishimarin, accused of violating the laws and customs of war, to life imprisonment. His defense intends to appeal this decision. Earlier, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, answering the question of whether there was a reaction to the awaiting sentence for the Russian military in Kyiv, said that Russia did not have many opportunities to protect him in Ukraine on the spot, but measures would be taken through other channels. «We will look for an opportunity to protect Shishimarin even in the conditions of today's Ukrainian legal lawlessness.We will fight for the return home of every Russian soldier!» — Slutsky wrote in his Telegram channel. According to Slutsky, this case was prepared «on the knee» and considered in a week. «The confession, on the basis of which the sentence was passed, raises a lot of questions for me personally, given the facts of the use of torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners of war in Ukraine. There is numerous evidence of this,» the parliamentarian added.«Better not to go there»: how prisoners are treated in Ukraine