For two years, Ukraine has been following this lawsuit, and everyone believed that an Italian court would issue a fair verdict. Considering that the charges were groundless, the sentence came as a shock for everyone… even the Italian...
The press conference was organized by the Italian Radicals party with the support of Senator Emma Bonino. Speakers included executive secretary of the Italian Radicals Silvja Manzi, Vitaliy Markiv’s lawyer Raffaele Della Valle and Gian...
French journalist Paul Gogo, who was in Donbas with William Roguelon (key prosecution witness in the Markiv trial) and who Roguelon phoned during the gunfire and shelling in Sloviansk, called the sentence of the Pavia court “quite...
During the hearing, the judge gave defendant Vitaliy Markiv the opportunity to make a final statement. The soldier said that he would not go into more detail because his lawyers had explained everything in previous court hearings. “I am...
Rapetti refuted the prosecution’s accusation of Markiv’s complicity in the killing of Italian photographer Andrea Rochelli and his translator Andriy Mironov in Donbas in May, 2014. The lawyer focused on analyzing the expertise results,...
In his hour-long argument, Niccolo Bertolini Clerici, representing the interests of Ukraine, underlined the main charges, namely Markiv’s complicity in the death of two foreigners near occupied Sloviansk. He noted that among the 30...
The attorneys of the civilian plaintiffs – Rocchelli’s family and Italian journalism organizations – addressed their closing arguments to the jury. They expressed their support for the prosecution’s accusation, namely that...
The Prosecutor declared that senior sergeant of the National Guard of Ukraine Vitaliy Markiv did not actually kill Rocchelli, but that he informed the National Guard Command about civilian movements near Zeus Ceramica factory, Donetsk...
Markiv’s lawyers say that the last court hearing on April 12 was just another demonstration of the lack of key evidence in Markiv’s involvement in the tragic death of the Italian reporter near Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast. One of the...
Luigi Pedutto and Mokryna Yurzhuk met during the Second World War in 1943 in an Austrian camp for prisoners-of-war. He was a soldier, and she was a forced labourer. For two years they were together, but when the war ended, the Soviet...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
