Two Russian soldiers plead guilty in new war crimes trial in Ukraine

[onthedarkside]

 

KYIV (Reuters) - Two captured Russian soldiers pleaded guilty on Thursday to shelling a town in eastern Ukraine in the second war crimes trial of the war.

 

At the trial in the Kotelevska district court in central Ukraine, state prosecutors asked for Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov to be jailed for 12 years for violating the laws of war.

 

A defence lawyer asked for leniency, saying the two soldiers had been following orders and repented.

 

Bobikin and Ivanov, who stood in a reinforced glass box, acknowledged being part of an artillery unit that fired at targets in the Kharkiv region from the Belgorod region in Russia. The shelling destroyed an educational establishment in the town of Derhachi, the prosecutors said.

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/two-russian-soldiers-plead-guilty-095303292.html

 

 

 

[RichardColeman]

I imagine Ukraine's prisons are going to be full of Russians before long - they better hope Putin does not shell the prisons

[Megasin1]

It was fairly well established at Nurenberg, that following orders is not an acceptable excuse for committing war crimes. They may have been more likely believed if they had claimed that they have really crappe guns and had actually being aiming elsewhere !!!

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

Bobikin and Ivanov, who stood in a reinforced glass box, acknowledged being part of an artillery unit that fired at targets in the Kharkiv region from the Belgorod region in Russia. The shelling destroyed an educational establishment in the town of Derhachi, the prosecutors said

Duckin & Diving are still sort after..

[Tropposurfer]

I would venture (unless they turn and propagandise for Putin) that any Ukrainian prisoners taken back to Russia wont be afforded any semblance of such judicial process.

[Harveyboy]

rules of war 

Put them against a wall ...job done