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The first interrogation of a Russian soldier was held in a war crimes trial initiated by the Ukrainian judiciary.
For the first time, court statements pleading war crimes charges have emerged.
Reporter Ahn Sang-woo reports.
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21-year-old Sgt. Shishimarin, a member of the Russian Army's Tank Division, enters the criminal courthouse in Kiiu, the capital of Ukraine.
Sgt. Shishimarin pleaded guilty to the crime of shooting and killing an unarmed 62-year-old man in a village in the Ukrainian state of Sumy on February 28.
[(Are you admitting the crime?) Yes.
(Are you acknowledging everything?) Yes.]
This is the first time that a Russian soldier has admitted to himself that he has committed a war crime.
Russia, however, denied the allegations that its military had committed war crimes, arguing that it was not aware of any incident involving Sgt.
Ukraine, Luhansk Oblast.
Ukrainian troops place bombs under the bridge to stop the advance of Russian cavalry.
Ukrainian propaganda also reclaimed Kharkiv, the second city after the capital Kiiu, but fierce fighting continues in the eastern Donbas region.
The head of the Chechen Autonomous Republic, a close aide to Russian President Putin, admitted for the first time at a Moscow meeting that Russia was struggling in the war.
[Ramzan Kadyrov / President of the Chechen Republic: We are not fighting the Ukrainian army.
We are in a difficult situation because we are fighting NATO.]
Meanwhile, Russia said that in relation to Finland and Sweden's promotion of NATO accession, it would take concrete countermeasures in consideration of how much NATO military assets will be deployed in the future.
(Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)