The statement of reasons contains 176 pages. The judges state that the accused was on Mount Karachun on that tragic day, May 24, 2014, that he could see the Zeus Ceramica factory from his position, and that he had good visual control of...
Della Valle believes that the Ukrainian authorities should explain that soldier Markiv is not guilty, since there is no evidence of his complicity in the tragic incident near Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast on May 24, 2014, when photographer...
Europeans can breathe easy for the first time in several years: Italy, one of the leading economies of the continent, will no longer be a nightmare of government officials and financiers, it will not provoke crises and strife and undermine...
Vitaliy remains optimistic and writes that the fight for Ukraine continues on all fronts, and he is also fighting his battle on his own front line. Vitaliy is an example for us all, a strongly motivated young man who never gives up and is...
“Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! I shall not give up without a fight and I shall fight to the end, to victory, our common victory! I shall fight for the sake of those who have fallen, for the sake of those are still with us, but are...
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,...
“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
