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Diamars 24 mei 2022
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tur loke el a haci y significa pa nos, cu lo keda
graba pa semper den nos mente y curason.
“Cerca Dios mi alma ta na paz, ta di DJ’E mi
salbacion ta bin”
Salmo 62:1
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Sr. Ramon Rodriguez
Rodriguez
Cariñosamente yama “More of Papa More”
*03-08-1943 - †20-05-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Cristalia Francisca Huntington
*21-07-1953 - †22-05-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
Russian sentenced to life in Ukraine’s
1st war crimes trial
Before Shishimarin’s sentencing, Kremlin spokes-
man Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was unable
to defend the soldier but will consider trying to do
so “through other channels.”
Mary Ellen O’Connell, an expert on international
law at the University of Notre Dame, said that put-
ting Shishimarin on trial could prove “extremely
detrimental to Ukrainian soldiers in the hands of
Russia.” She said Russia may decide to hold “show
trials” of Ukrainians to boost the morale of its own
soldiers and spread disinformation.
(AP) — A captured Russian soldier who “Maybe it would have happened without the
pleaded guilty to killing a civilian was sen- Ukrainians beginning trials,” O’Connell said.
tenced by a Ukrainian court Monday to life “But the timing suggests that the Ukrainians
in prison — the maximum — amid signs the should have held back and perhaps still should,
Kremlin may, in turn, put on trial some of the so that the Russians can’t say, ‘We’re just doing to
fighters who surrendered at Mariupol’s steel- their soldiers what they did to ours.’”
works.
Russian authorities have threatened to hold trials
Meanwhile, in a rare public expression of opposi- of captured Ukrainians — namely, fighters who
tion to the war from the ranks of the Russian elite, held out at Mariupol’s shattered steel plant, the last
a veteran Kremlin diplomat resigned and sent stronghold of resistance in the strategic southern
a scathing letter to foreign colleagues in which port city. They surrendered and were taken pris-
he said of the invasion, “Never have I been so oner last week, at which point Moscow claimed
the capture of Mariupol was complete.
ashamed of my country as on Feb. 24.”
Also, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Russia’s main investigative body said it intends to
called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia in interrogate the Mariupol defenders to “identify
a video address to world leaders and executives at the nationalists” and determine whether they were
the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzer- involved in crimes against civilians.
land. He also revealed one of the deadliest single
strikes of the war, a missile attack on a village near Russian authorities have seized upon the far-right
Kyiv that killed almost 90 people. origins of one of the regiments there, calling the
Azov Regiment’s fighters “Nazis” and accusing
And on the battlefield, heavy fighting raged in the their commander without evidence of “numerous
Donbas in the east, where Moscow’s forces have atrocities.” Russia’s top prosecutor has asked the
stepped up their bombardment. Cities not under country’s Supreme Court to designate the Azov
Russian control were constantly shelled, and one Regiment a terrorist organization.
Ukrainian official said Russian forces targeted ci-
vilians trying to flee. Family members of the fighters have pleaded for
their eventual return to Ukraine as part of a pris-
In the first of what could be a multitude of war oner swap.
crimes trials held by Ukraine, Russian Sgt. Vadim
Shishimarin, 21, was sentenced for the killing of Elsewhere, Boris Bondarev, a veteran Russian dip-
a 62-year-old man who was shot in the head in lomat at the U.N. office at Geneva, quit and sent a
a village in the northeastern Sumy region in the letter denouncing the “aggressive war unleashed”
opening days of the war. by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bondarev
told The Associated Press: “It is intolerable what
Shishimarin, a member of a tank unit, had claimed my government is doing now.”
he was following orders, and he apologized to the
man’s widow in court. In his letter, Bondarev said those who conceived
the war “want only one thing — to remain in pow-
His Ukraine-appointed defense attorney, Victor er forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on
Ovsyanikov, argued his client had been unpre- yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the en-
pared for the “violent military confrontation” and tire Russian Navy, enjoying unlimited power and
mass casualties that Russian troops encountered complete impunity.”
when they invaded. He said he would appeal.
He also said Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is
Ukrainian civil liberties advocate Volodymyr all about “warmongering, lies and hatred.”
Yavorskyy said it was “an extremely harsh sentence
for one murder during the war.” But Aarif Abra- At the Davos forum, Zelenskyy said sanctions
ham, a British-based human rights lawyer, said the against the Kremlin must go further. He urged an
trial was conducted “with what appears to be full embargo on Russian oil, a complete cutoff of trade
and fair due process,” including access to an at- and a withdrawal of foreign companies from the
torney. country.
Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating thousands “This is what sanctions should be: They should
of potential war crimes. Russian forces in Mari- be maximum, so that Russia and every other po-
upol bombed a theater where civilians were shel- tential aggressor that wants to wage a brutal war
tering and struck a maternity hospital. In the wake against its neighbor would clearly know the im-
of Moscow’s withdrawal from around Kyiv weeks mediate consequences of their actions,” said Zel-
ago, mass graves were discovered and streets were enskyy, who received a standing ovation.
strewn with bodies in towns such as Bucha.