Russian Vadim Shishimarin faces up to 15 years in prison.
The Prosecutor General's Office sent an indictment against the commander branch of unit 32010 “4th Panzer Kantemirov Division of the Moscow region” Vadim Shishimarin, said the head of the UCP Irina Venediktova. Thus, the first Russian military will stand trial for the murder of a civilian in Sumy region.
“The investigation has established that this 21-year-old Russian soldier killed an unarmed resident of the village of Chupakhivka, Sumy region, on February 28, 2022, while riding a bicycle along the roadside. Before that, the column, which included Sergeant Shishimarin, was defeated by our Armed Forces. While fleeing, he and 4 other employees fired at a private car and seized it, ”the statement reads.
After that, the occupiers drove into the village in a stolen car with punctured wheels. On the way they saw a man returning home and talking on the phone. One of the soldiers ordered the sergeant to kill a civilian so that he would not report them to Ukrainian defenders.
“He fired several shots through the open window of a car from a Kalashnikov rifle at the head of a 62-year-old victim. The man died on the spot just a few tens of meters from his house, “Venediktov added.
The suspect Shishimarin has already been taken into custody. Prosecutors and SBU investigators have gathered enough evidence of his involvement in violating the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The occupier faces 10 to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment.
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Last week, an indictment was sent to court against the Russian general for complicity in waging an aggressive war against Ukraine . According to the pre-trial investigation, a high-ranking Russian army official, together with other representatives of the Russian military and political leadership, in February 2022 was directly involved in preparing and organizing the invasion of Ukraine from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.
the general, being in the city of Dzhankoy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, personally gave to the personnel of subordinated armed units the order for invasion of Ukraine. And in the future he organized and controlled the conduct of hostilities in the southern regions of Ukraine.
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