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Russia solider, 21, on trial for war crimes in Ukraine
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A younger Russian soldier has gone on trial in Ukraine for battle crimes, after he was accused of murdering a Ukrainian civilian.
The defendant who appeared within the court docket in Kyiv on Friday is Vadim Shysimarin, a 21-year-old sergeant in a Russian tank division.
He’s accused of murdering an unarmed 62-year-old civilian, which is a battle crime underneath worldwide regulation.
The case marks a watershed second as it’s the first time a Russian soldier has been accused of battle crimes because the invasion started in February.
Shysimarin, who was introduced earlier than the court docket in a preliminary listening to, faces life imprisonment underneath fees of battle crimes and premeditated homicide, if discovered responsible.
It’s alleged that the Russian sergeant, who had been preventing with the Kantemirovskaya tank division in north-east Ukraine, killed the civilian on 28 February within the village of Chupakhivka.
He’s accused of taking pictures the unarmed man within the head from a automobile window, after being ordered “to kill the civilian so he wouldn’t report them to Ukrainian defenders,” say the prosecutors.
The aged man was using a bicycle and speaking on the cellphone when he was shot, solely “dozens of metres” from his home.
He was shot with an AK-47 rifle.
Talking on the court docket on Friday, Shishimarin confirmed his title, tackle, marital standing and that he was a Russian serviceman.
He declined a trial by jury.
Shishimarin will inform the court docket at a later date whether or not or not he denies the cost, his lawyer Viktor Ovsyannikov mentioned.
A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned: “Investigators of the SBU [Ukrainian secret services] have collected sufficient proof of his involvement in violation of the legal guidelines and customs of battle mixed with premeditated homicide.
“For these actions, he faces 10 to fifteen years in jail or life in jail,” they added.
The decide mentioned the court docket will reconvene on 18 Could, after the case was filed at a prison court docket earlier within the week.
“He’s right here, we’ve got him,” mentioned Ukraine’s prosecutor common, Iryna Venediktova, referring to Shishimarin, in Kyiv on Tuesday.
Russia mentioned it had no details about the sergeant’s trial and the nation has repeatedly denied its forces have dedicated battle crimes in Ukraine.
Two different circumstances are set to be heard within the Kyiv court docket over the approaching days.
Considered one of these is the trial – in absentia – of Mikhail Romanov, a Russian soldier accused of rape and homicide.
He allegedly broke right into a home in March in a village close to Kyiv, murdering a person after which repeatedly raping his spouse whereas “threatening her and her underage baby with violence and weapons.”
The variety of alleged Russian battle crimes registered by Ukraine’s common prosecutor surpassed 11,000, with Unicef reporting that not less than 100 youngsters have been killed within the battle in April alone.
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Photos: Mass polio vaccination drive kicks off in Gaza amid Israeli strikes
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Palestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a vaccination drive against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the territory ravaged by nearly 11 months of Israeli bombardment.
Authorities plan to vaccinate children in central Gaza until Wednesday before moving to the more devastated northern and southern parts of the Strip, aiming to inoculate about 640,000 children. On Saturday, a few children were vaccinated before the formal start of the campaign.
“This is the first few hours of the first phase of a massive campaign, one of the most complex in the world,” said Juliette Touma, communications director of UNRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency.
“Today is test time for parties to the conflict to respect these area pauses to allow the UNRWA teams and other medical workers to reach children with these very precious two drops. It’s a race against time,” Touma told the Reuters news agency.
Israel and Hamas, which have so far failed to conclude a deal to end the war, said they would cooperate to allow the campaign to succeed.
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that Israel has agreed to limited pauses in its military operations to facilitate the campaign. There were initial reports of Israeli strikes in central Gaza early on Sunday, but it was not immediately known if anyone was killed or wounded.
Hospitals in Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat confirmed that the campaign had begun on Sunday. Israel said on Saturday that the vaccination programme would continue through September 9 and last eight hours a day.
The vaccinations will be held at some 160 sites across the territory, including medical centres and schools. Children below 10 years of age will receive two drops of oral polio vaccine in two rounds, the second to be administered four weeks after the first.
Gaza recently reported its first polio case in 25 years – a 10-month-old boy, now paralysed in the leg. The WHO says the presence of a paralysis case indicates there could be hundreds more who have been infected but are not showing symptoms.
Most affected children do not experience symptoms and those who do usually recover in a week or so, the UN health agency said. There is no cure for polio, it can only be prevented. When polio causes paralysis, it is usually permanent. The disease can be fatal if the paralysis affects breathing muscles.
The vaccination campaign faces a host of challenges, from ongoing war to devastated roads and hospitals shut down by the war. About 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, with hundreds of thousands crammed into squalid tent camps.
Health officials have expressed alarm about disease outbreaks as rubbish piles up and the bombing of critical infrastructure has sent putrid water flowing through the streets. Widespread hunger has left people even more vulnerable to illness.
“We escaped death with our children and fled from place to place for the sake of our children, and now we have these diseases,” said Wafaa Obaid, who brought her three children to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah for vaccination.
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US forces destroy Iranian-backed Houthi vessel, drones in past 24 hours: CENTCOM
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U.S. forces have destroyed two Houthi drones and an unmanned surface vessel in the Red Sea, the U.S. military announced.
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) posted on X Saturday that in the past 24 hours, forces destroyed one Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) and one uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
The U.S. military noted that they determined that the UAV and USV presented a “clear and imminent threat” to U.S. and coalition forces as well as merchant vessels in the Middle Eastern region.
“This action was taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels,” CENTCOM said.
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Yemeni Coast Guard ships affiliated with the Houthis patrol the sea in January. International shipping has been disrupted by their presence. (AFP via Getty Images)
The escalation of the ongoing Israel and Hamas war has escalated further since the Hezbollah attack in Israel that targeted a children’s soccer field.
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The attack, in July, killed 12 children and wounded dozens more.
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