On June 12, 2019, the Pavia court in Italy sentenced National Guardsman Vitaliy Markiv to 24 years for alleged complicity in the killing of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli near occupied Sloviansk on May 24, 2014. For the first time ever, a Ukrainian soldier (Markiv also has Italian citizenship), who was doing his duty defending Ukraine from the Russian aggressor and its minions, was sentenced in a foreign country.

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