‘Moscow has changed for me’ : adim Shishimarin is the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes in Ukraine. Meduza interviewed his mother.

A Kyiv court began the first war crimes trial for a Russian soldier on May 13. On Wednesday, May 18, the accused, 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin, pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a civilian in Ukraine's Sumy region. Meduza interviewed Shishimarin's mother Lyubov, who lives in the town of Ust-Ilimsk in Russia's Irkutsk region (she asked that her surname, which isn't the same as her son's, not be disclosed). Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/19/they-won-t-turn-him-over