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Russia Says Mariupol Battle at End as Ukrainian Defenders Surrender

Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms. Moscow's flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly…

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Vadim Shishimarin, Russian soldier facing war crimes trial in Kyiv, says he did not want to kill Ukrainian civilian

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the invasion of Ukraine began tells a court he had not wanted to kill an unarmed civilian and he sincerely repented.

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Deliberations start in Russian soldier's war crimes trial

The lawyer for a Russian soldier who is the first to go on trial for an alleged war crime in Ukraine has asked a Kyiv court to acquit his client

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‘I did not want to kill,’ Russian soldier tells Ukraine war crimes trial

The judge may hand down a verdict when the court next convenes on Monday

The Independent UK

Russian Soldier in Ukraine War Crimes Trial Says He Did Not Want to Kill

A 21-year-old Russian soldier told a court on Friday he had not wanted to kill an unarmed civilian and that he sincerely repented, as he delivered his final words at the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's Feb. 24 invasion. Vadim Shishimarin, a tank commander, has pleaded guilty to…

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Russian soldier in Ukraine war crimes trial says he did not want to kill

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Russian soldier who killed innocent grandad smirks when told of possible prisoner swap

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, shot Ukrainian civilian Oleksandr Shelypov, 62, dead with an AK-47 as he pushed his bicycle home in Chupakhivk, just days into the invasion in February

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Troops who defended Mariupol steel mill registered as POWs

Amid fear of Russian reprisals, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after enduring the merciless assault on Mariupol’s steel factory have been registered as prisoners of war

The Independent UK

Russian soldier in Ukraine war crime trial pleads for forgiveness from victim’s widow

Twnety-one-year-old pleads guilty to shooting pensioner in head several times

The Independent UK

Moscow says hundreds of Ukrainian troops in custody; US Senate approves $40 billion in new aid

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said Thursday that more than 1,700 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered at a steel plant in the conquered city of Mariupol, even as Ukraine claimed battlefield gains elsewhere, continued its first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier and prepared to launch a second.

Los Angeles Times

Russian soldier asks widow of victim for forgiveness in Ukraine war crimes trial

During the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a 21-year-old Russian soldier asks a Ukrainian widow to forgive him for killing her husband.

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Russian soldier begs his victim’s widow for forgiveness in war crime trial

Sgt Shishimarin told the widow: ‘I realise that you can’t forgive me, but I’m pleading you for forgiveness’

Evening Standard

Russian soldiers 'held babies hostage and executed a boy on playground' report claims

The Human Rights Watch has uncovered a string of accusations of shocking war crimes said to have been carried out by Russian soldiers on Ukrainian civilians as the invasion began

Daily Mirror

West must put senior Russian figures on trial for war crimes, says ambassador

His comments come as the first Russian soldier accused of war crimes has been put on trial

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Russian soldier on trial asks victim's widow to forgive him

A Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine has testified that he shot a civilian on orders from two officers

Reuters

Ukraine prosecutor seeks life sentence for Russian soldier in war crimes trial

A Ukrainian state prosecutor asked a court on Thursday to sentence a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's Feb. 24 invasion.

WEKU

Courtroom drama: Ukrainian widow confronts Russian who shot her husband

The widow asked the Russian soldier what he felt when he killed her husband. "Fear," he said. "I understand you probably won't be able to forgive me. But I ask for your forgiveness."

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Backs Nordic NATO Bids, Ukraine Tries Russian for War Crime

US President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday to discuss their NATO membership bids, while Ukraine said no military option was left to rescue the soldiers still inside a steel plant besieged by Russian forces. Moscow's troops have been accused of widespread atrocities against…

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Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 18)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The New Daily

Russian soldier ‘totally’ guilty of war crime

A Russian soldier agrees he is "totally" guilty of murdering an unarmed Ukrainian. Ukraine has so far identified more than 10,000 possible war crimes.

WEKU

In a war crimes trial, a Russian soldier pleads guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian

Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, is facing the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine. The Russian soldier could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old unarmed civilian in the head.

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Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin pleads guilty to killing unarmed civilian in first Ukraine war crimes trial

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin faces life in prison

Evening Standard

Russian soldier pleads guilty in first war crimes trial of Ukraine conflict

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region

Daily Record

First Russian soldier standing trial for war crimes in Ukraine pleads guilty to murdering civilian

Russian tank commander Vadim Shishimarin, 21, has pleaded guilty to murdering a civilian, aged 62, in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka.

The Independent UK

Russian soldier pleads guilty at Ukraine war crimes trial

A 21-year-old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since Moscow invaded Ukraine has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian

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