The 21-year-old Russian soldier was sentenced to life imprisonment,Vadim Shishimarin, who was on trial in Kiev for war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.
The 21-year-old, was sentenced to life in prison for killing a civilian just days after the Russian invasion began, the BBC reported.
According to the indictment, Shishimarin was leading a unit of an armored division when their convoy was attacked. Along with four soldiers, he stole a car to escape. They were near the village of Chupahifka in Sumy province when they came across 62-year-old Selipov who was pushing his bicycle and talking on the phone."
"One of the soldiers ordered the defendant to kill the civilian in order not to report them" for stealing the car, the prosecutor general's office said, which Sisimarine did.
The sergeant, from Irkutsk, Siberia, confessed to shooting Selipov with a Kalashnikov from the open window of a stolen car while cycling near his home in the village of Chupakhivka, northeastern Ukraine, on February 28, the fifth day of the war. The Russian soldier shot the unfortunate pensioner four times in the head.
"Let him rot in jail": Ukrainian widow lashes out
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Katerina Selipova said, "Her husband of 39 years was a peaceful man, a pensioner who posed no threat to the Russians. Seeing her husband's killer in court, she claimed that "he looks like a child, but he will get his punishment". Moreover, she called her husband's death senseless.
"I know he is a soldier and follows orders, but why didn't he shoot on the ground or in the air? He should rot in jail and spend the rest of his life thinking about what he has done," she said. She also added that she feels "no hatred" for her husband's killer.
And how fate brings them together The unfortunate Selipov had served in the Russian army as a bodyguard in the "KGB" secret services under Brezhnev. He was eventually assassinated 40 years later in the Russian invasion ordered by President Vladimir Putin, who had also served in the KGB.
Source: Proto Thema
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