A Ukrainian courtroom on Friday decreased to fifteen years a life sentence handed to a Russian soldier in Might for pre-meditated homicide within the nation’s first struggle crimes trial.
“In response to the results of the appellate evaluate, the enchantment filed by the defence was partially glad,” an announcement on the Kyiv courtroom of appeals’ web site stated, including that Russian soldier “Vadim Shishimarin was sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment.”
Shishimarin, who was 21 on the time of the ruling in Might, was discovered responsible of struggle crimes for killing an unarmed civilian and handed a life sentence, within the first verdict of its type of Russia’s invasion. The sergeant from Siberia had admitted to killing a 62-year-old civilian, Oleksandr Shelipov, as he was driving his bike within the village of Chupakhivka in northeast Ukraine.
Shishimarin claimed he shot Shelipov beneath stress from one other soldier as they tried to retreat and escape again into Russia in a stolen automotive on February 28. His lawyer Viktor Ovsyannikov had vowed to enchantment the decision, arguing that “societal stress” weighed on the choice.
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