Russian soldiers Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov pled guilty at their trial at a Kotelevska district court in Ukraine. Both soldiers were sentenced to 11 and 1/2 years for committing war crimes, specifically for "violating the laws and customs of war."
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a new tool will collate evidence of war crimes and support his longstanding pledge to bring to account Russian servicemen accused of murders, rape and looting.
Vadim Shishimarin, 21, had pleaded guilty last week to shooting an unarmed Ukrainian man in late February. On Monday, a panel of judges in Kyiv sentenced him to life in prison.
Meet Vadim Shishimarin, 21-year-old Russian soldier sentenced to life in Ukraine s first war crimes trial - Vadim Shishimarin, a tank commander, had pleaded guilty to killing 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelipov in the Ukrainian village of Chupakhivka.