Ukraine War: Life imprisonment for Russian soldiers
Created: 05/23/2022, 12:15 p.m
By: Tobias Utz
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The first war crimes trial has taken place in Ukraine: a young Russian soldier has to go to prison for life.
A Russian soldier has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the first war crimes trial in the Ukraine war.
The court in Kyiv on Monday (May 23) ruled that after the 21-year-old man confessed, the tanker shot dead a 62-year-old civilian after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This was the first case to go to court after global outrage at Russia's atrocities in Ukraine.
(tu/dpa)
