A group of Ukrainian forensic experts are in Sloviansk in the Donetsk oblast to carry out important investigative experiments linked with the death of two journalists exactly six years ago and the charges Italy brought against Ukrainian soldier Vitaly Markiv over the deaths. Now 30, Markiv has been in Italian detention for almost three years and in 2019 received an extraordinary 24-year sentence despite no investigation ever having been carried out in the place where the two journalists were killed during military conflict. It is to be hoped that evidence now obtained will be taken into account during the appeal hearing against the conviction and sentence.
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People hold flyers during a rally to demand freedom for Vitaliy Markiv in front of the Italian embassy on Oct. 14, 2019. Markiv was sentenced to 24 years in prison in Italy for involvement in the 2014 death of Italian freelance photographer Andrea Rocchelli during Russia’s war in Donbas.
