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Russia and Ukraine trade blame for shelling of POW prison

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin looks on during his appeal hearing at a court in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday July 29, 2022. An appeals court in Kyiv has reduced to 15 years the life sentence of Shishimarin, a 21-year-old contract soldier convicted in the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. (AP Photo/Erika Kinetz)

FILE - Red Cross staff drive by in their vehicles to the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant to observe the evacuation of Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal steel plant, in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling. (AP Photo, File)

Russia and Ukraine trade blame for shelling of POW prison