ROME — Few disputed the guilt of Vitaly Markiv, a Ukrainian who also holds Italian citizenship, when an Italian court sentenced him to 24 years in prison this summer.
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People walk past a huge banner with the lettering reading "Freedom for defender of Ukraine Vitaly Markiv" and depicting his portrait in the center of Kyiv on Nov. 7.