“What had my husband done to you?”, “I ask your forgiveness”: the meeting between the Ukrainian widow and the Russian soldier at the trial in Kiev

“I know you won’t be able to forgive me, but I ask your forgiveness anyway.” Behind the small glass cell in the court of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, Vadim Shishimarin he apologized to Kateryna Shalipovawidow of the 62-year-old civilian who was shot in the head in the village of Chupakhivka, in the Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, on 28 February.