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Vitaly Markiv flies home (Photo: Arsen Avakov / Facebook)
Vitaly Markiv, a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine, acquitted by an Italian court, returns from Milan to Kiev.
This was announced by the head of the Ministry of the Interior of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, as well as the human rights defender Lyudmila Denisova on the morning of Wednesday, November 4, publishing photographs of the National Guard.
“Good morning Ukraine! We fly to Kiev. See you, ”the Interior Minister said in a statement.
Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova commented on the return of the Ukrainian on Facebook.
“Ukraine, meet your hero! We’re going home, ”he wrote.
According to the Interior Ministry, a meeting with Markiv is expected in Kiev at the National Guard airfield after 13:30.
Let us remember that on Tuesday, November 3, an ordinary session of the Court of Appeals in the Markiv case was held in Milan. The court decided whether it was necessary to include new National Police examinations in the case materials.
Earlier, Avakov said that the Ukraine investigation found witnesses, whose testimonies prove Markiv’s innocence.
As a result, the Italian court decided to completely acquit the National Guard and release it.
In 2019, a court in the Italian city of Pavia sentenced a Ukrainian National Guard soldier Vitaly Markiv to 24 years in prison.
The Ukrainian was found guilty in the deaths of Italian photographer Andrea Rocchelli and Russian translator Andrei Mironov near Slavyansk in the Donbass in 2014.
Kiev insisted that the Ukrainian was not involved in the crime. According to the Ukrainian investigation, the journalists died as a result of the bombardment by Russian terrorist troops.
The 31-year-old senior sergeant of the Ukrainian National Guard was serving his sentence in a maximum security prison near Milan. He spent three years, four months, two days behind bars.
