Documents and personal belongings of Russian translator Andrei Mironov and Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli. File photoROME, Feb 5The order to launch a mortar attack on May 24, 2014 near the village of Andreevka near Slovyansk, which killed Italian reporter Andrea Rocchelli and his translator, Russian human rights activist Andrei Mironov, was personally given by the commander of the 95th separate airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mikhail Zabrodsky, according to a witness of those events in a television investigation by Italian journalists, the first part of which was shown by the news channel RaiNews24. The authors of the television film «The Discipline of Silence» Andera Scherezini and Giuseppe Borello, starting their investigation, asked themselves the question: who killed Rocchelli and Mironov? The fact is that the judicial and investigative authorities of Italy could not give an answer to it.Zelensky awarded the National Guardsman, who was tried for murder in Donbass In July 2017, Vitaliy Markiv, who has citizenship of Ukraine and Italy, was arrested at the Bologna airport in this case. In 2013, he left Italy for Ukraine to take part in the events on the Maidan, and then joined the volunteer battalion of the National Guard and went to fight in the Donbass, where he acted under the call sign «Italian». In 2019, the jury of the city of Pavia found Markiv guilty of the murder of Rocchelli and Mironov and sentenced him to 24 years in prison. However, in 2020, the Court of Appeal of Milan issued an acquittal against Markiv, which was confirmed by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation a year later. In December 2020, the Basmanny Court of Moscow issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Markiv on charges of murder in a generally dangerous way motivated by national or political hatred. mortar fire was opened on the group, which included Rocchelli and Mironov. During the appeal process, the prosecution pointed out that the National Guard fighter was sentenced by the court of first instance not because he directly fired from a mortar, but because he provided specific assistance to those who fired at unarmed people.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned about the situation with the safety of media workers in Ukraine The authors of the film «The Discipline of Silence» managed to find a witness to those dramatic events. This man, whose name is not called, and his face is not shown, at that time fought in the 95th airmobile brigade. According to him, on May 24, 2014, he was on Mount Karachun just opposite the place where Rocchelli and Mironov were killed. He told TV reporters that the order to open fire from the Vasilek automatic mortar was then given personally by the brigade commander Zabrodsky, who in August 2014 became the Hero of Ukraine and is now a member of the Verkhovna Rada. The film also included an interview with Zabrodsky, who denied all possible accusations , but admitted that the military units that were at that time on Karachun, including the soldiers of the National Guard, were under his command. 2022/02/2c87023db09963dc949c5e41c613e064.jpg» />Yarosh urged to capture Italians in Ukraine
