An Russian Army commander captured by Ukraine will be the first member of Moscow’s armed forces to be tried on Ukrainian territory, the country’s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, announced.
Vadim Shishimarin, commander of the unit 32010 of the 4th Guards Armored Division Kantemirovskaya from the Moscow region, will sit in the dock for the alleged murder of a civilian in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine, the prosecutor wrote on her Facebook account.
According to the prosecution’s investigation, on February 28 Shishimarin, 21, killed an unarmed man riding a bicycle on the road in the town of Chupajivka.
After an attack by the Ukrainian Army the column the commander was part of had disbanded and the accused, accompanied by four other soldiers, he fled in a civilian vehicle seized by force.
Arriving in Chupakhivka, they met the victim, 62, was talking on the phone, and Shishimarin shot him in the head with a machine gun to prevent him from ratting them out to the Ukrainian troops.
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Later, the commander was captured by the forces of Kyiv, and on May 4, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) published a video in which he confessed to having shot a civilian.
Shishimarin faces between 10 and 15 years in prison or life in prison. if convicted of the charges charged, violation of the laws of war, in combination with premeditated murder.