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Russian soldier accused of 'shooting unarmed villager' in Kyiv war crimes trial

"After the prosecution had read out their account of what happened -- it was on 28th of February in Sumy region in northern Ukraine when Vadim Shishimarin is accused of killing an unarmed villager as he was in a stolen car with four other Russian soldiers trying to get away from the Ukrainian forces who were chasing him," FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reported from Kyiv. "Vadim Shishimarin immediately pleaded guilty and said that he accepted full responsibility for what happened. But the trial is not over -- the next session will be tomorrow."

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