Since yesterday there has been no more news of Ivan Luca Vavassori, the 29-year-old former goalkeeper of Pro Patria, Legnano and Bra, who had enlisted in the Ukrainian army as a volunteer in the international brigades. The alarm on Instagram and Facebook.

"We are sorry to inform you - write the managers of the social pages - that last night during the retreat of some wounded in an attack on Mariupol, two convoys were destroyed by the Russian army. In one of these there was perhaps also Ivan, together with the 4th Regiment. We are trying to understand if there are survivors. "

Leaving for Ukraine, Vavassori had recalled the extreme difficulty in which he would have found himself operating. "Ours - he wrote - will be a suicide mission because we have very few units against an entire army, but we prefer to try. What matters is to die well, only then does life begin".

Ivan Luca, born in Russia, is the adoptive son of Pietro Vavassori, owner of Italsempione, a logistics company, and of Alessandra Sgarella, kidnapped by the 'Ndrangheta in 1997, forced to a long imprisonment in Aspromonte, and died in 2011 of illness .

After the approval of the Kiev embassy in Italy, the former footballer joined the "Legion of international defense of Ukraine", becoming the "commander Rome".

(Unioneonline / vl)

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