A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured on the battlefield, captured Russian troops have said.
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Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Russias own troops have said, the media reported.A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple .
The trial of 21-year-old Sergeant Vadim Shyshimarin marks the first time a member of the Russian military has been prosecuted for a war crime during the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine's top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin left open the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion.