In what is being called a “historic" step for the first time, Ukraine on Friday extradited a captured Russian soldier to Lithuania, where he will be put on trial for alleged war crimes.

“For the first time since the start of full-scale aggression, Ukraine has handed over a Russian serviceman to a foreign state, Lithuania, for real criminal prosecution for war crimes," said Ukraine’s prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko on Telegram.

Ukrainian officials said the extradited man was a sailor who had served in the Russian military police. He was captured by the Ukrainian army in the Zaporizhzhia region near the southern village of Robotyne, AFP reported.

Kravchenko said the Russian soldier was “involved in the illegal detention, torture, and inhumane treatment of civilians and prisoners of w

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