Russian soldier Dmytro Kurashov, accused of committing a war crime by executing a Ukrainian serviceman who had surrendered during combat, attends a court hearing in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday, November 6. Reuters

A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind.

Dmitriy Kurashov, 27, was convicted by a court in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia for shooting dead a Ukrainian soldier who had just surrendered to his unit.

According to Ukraine’s security service, Kurashov had previously served time in a Russian prison for theft, and in November 2023, he signed a contract with the Russian defense ministry in exchange for amnesty.

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