KIEV – Russian sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, tried in Kiev for war crimes and premeditated murder of an unarmed 62-year-old civilian in the Sumy region at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, asked for ‘forgiveness’. “I know you won’t be able to forgive me, but I ask your forgiveness anyway,” the soldier said in Russian from the defendant’s cage, addressing the wife of the man he admitted to killing him. In his testimony, the defendant-soldier recounted in detail how he shot the man on the bicycle.
Sergeant Shishimarin said he initially refused to shoot, but was ordered and threatened by another soldier.
Kateryna Shelipova, widow of the man killed while cycling the village of Chupakhivkai also gave her testimony before the three judges of the Solomyansky District Court of the Ukrainian capital: “My husband worked as a tractor driver, we had no weapons. He was in civilian clothes. With my husband I lost everything, he was my protector, “she said.
Source: Ansa
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