Twenty-four years. This is the sentence pronounced by the Pavia court against 29-year-old Vitaliy Markiv, deputy platoon commander in the General Serhiy Kulchytsky Operational Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine, for alleged complicity in the death of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli in Sloviansk in 2014.
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Activists hold a picture depicting Ukrainian soldier Vitaly Markiv as they shout "Free Markiv!" during a rally at the Italian embassy in Kyiv on July 12, 2019.
