Moscow sends Italy an official note notifying the fallen compatriots and launching a memo to the government
By: VirgilioNotizie | Published on: 04/24/2022 08:37
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Among the “foreign fighters” who fought to Ukraine, 11 Italians would have died in combat while “taking part in military operations”. against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This is what Moscow claims in an official communication to the Palazzo Chigi, reported by Corriere della Sera. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the fallen compatriots were said to have been part of a unit of sixty Italians stationed alongside the Kiev resistance, ten of whom would have returned to their homeland.
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“It can be assumed that the irreparable losses will increase,” they write in the official statement from Moscow, which also contains a warning about the possible end of the captured Italian fighters: “The norms of international humanitarian law do not apply to mercenaries”.
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As commented by Italian Foreign Ministry sources cited by Corriere, the message conveyed by the Russian Defense Ministry would constitute a “diplomatic escalation by Moscow” being used Tones “less and less friendly” to Rome, but also to other European countries, where “notes similar to those to Italy” arrived with the aim of “splitting the western front at this crucial stage”.
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According to a senior foreign minister, Russia “already foresees a European response in the form of new sanctions. Then try to condition the countries of the Union with attempts at intimidation”, This includes these notes on foreign fighters.
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The news of 11 Italian “professional fighters” who died in Ukraine has since had to be verified The Italian government would not be formally involved in the war.
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Counter-terror officials said the presence of 17 Italians in Ukraine a month ago, nine on duty near Kyiv, eight in the Moscow Armed Forces. All punishablesince the law prohibits “acts hostile to a foreign state”.
especially the Case of Giulia Schiff, the 23-year-old former student at the Aeronautical Academy of PozzuoliThe woman, expelled in 2018, went to fight as the only woman in the special forces of the International Legion in Kyiv. His story was followed and told by the program “Le Iene” on Italia 1.