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top u.s. military leader talking finally again discussing the hour s long call of the state of the war. how ukrainian using official recognition technology on the battlefield and plus two russian journalists were able to defy the sensors, they were still alive to do it. we start with the preliminary hearing that could become a first in this war. a prosecution of an alleged russian war criminal even as the war goes on around it. melissa bell has the story. she warns you some of the images you are seeing are graphic. reporter: ukraine opens its first war crime trial. the 21-year-old vadim shishimarin accused of shooting an unarmed man. they include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killings of many sicivilian of men and children in the two months long of kharkiv. we have commanders give orders of shots. from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have their own responsibility for these atrocities. reporter: that s a message that needs ....
Send a message so russian soldiers understand there will be no impunity. how unusual to have that kind of trial at this point during the war? reporter: it is difficult to find a single example because often war crimes are tried in another country and off the event. that s the point about international justice which is usually where it takes place and takes time to collect evidence. it happened many years after the war ended. ins war crimes prosecuted at the end of the second world war is that there is sense of impunity on the ground. during war, terrible things happen and teerrible things are done to other men. what she s saying, the prosecutor here in ukraine is saying if we can go through the ukrainian center and no one just a few weeks ago could have ....