Ukraine War: For the first time in Ukraine, a Russian soldier is being tried for war crimes.

The first Russian soldier facing trial for war crimes in

He gave a detailed account of how he killed civilians during the initial Russian offensive.

Russian Sergeant Vadim Shishimrin, 21, said in court, "I know you won't be able to forgive me, but I apologize nonetheless."

Vadim said this while addressing the wife of a 62-year-old man whom Vadim had admitted to having killed him on the first day of the attack.

A Russian soldier accused of openly killing civilians in Kyiv is on trial.

This is the first such case since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Russia, on the other hand, said that more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered from Mariupol, bringing the total number of fighters ejected from the plant to 1,730. The International Red Cross said it had registered "hundreds" of Ukrainian prisoners of war. who left the Ajovstal steel plant in Mariupol 

What is war crime?

According to The Conversation, there

are lapses in legal interpretation in considering whether war crimes have been committed.

This is why forensic criminal investigation is important in uncovering the truth.

International humanitarian law does not completely prohibit harm to citizens or their property, and civilians bear some damage.

However, the law is unclear when it comes to intentional attacks on civilians or civilian objects.

These are war crimes, unless a civilian item is also being used for military purposes and thus becomes a military target.

Disproportionate attacks are also war crimes.

These are attacks that cause a large number of civilian casualties relative to the military advantage of attacking a military target.

So, for example, this might include a missile attack on an apartment building that the Russian military knew would bring little military advantage, but would result in a large number of civilian casualties.

International law also prohibits indiscriminate attacks.

These may include the use of certain weapons against military targets in densely populated urban areas, such as artillery, cluster munitions or thermobaric "vacuum" bombs, whose widespread effects also carry the risk of killing civilians.

Russian troops have already been accused of using cluster weapons and vacuum bombs in civilian areas in Ukraine.

Both were also used by the Russian military in the devastating Chechen wars in the 1990s.

Other war crimes include the killing of prisoners, torture, hostage taking, illegal detention and destruction of property.

It is also a war crime to kill or injure someone posing as a civilian in the military uniform of the other party (such as potential Russian saboteurs wearing Ukrainian uniforms), or without any military insignia.