First Italian investigated for enlistment in Ukraine

There is the first Italian investigated for having gone to fight in Ukraine with the resistance .

It is a 19-year-old Genoese, Kevin Chiappalone, a sympathizer of the far-right movement CasaPound . Deputy Prosecutor Marco Zocco of the Genoese District Anti-Mafia and Counter-Terrorism Directorate accuses him of being a mercenary enlisted in the Ukrainian International Brigade: he risks a sentence of two to seven years.

The Digos investigation started after the young man's statements to the weekly Panorama in which he announced that he wanted to leave to defend Ukraine after hearing Putin talking about "denazifying the country".

The 19-year-old left in May, probably entering the country via the Polish border. After a training phase, as some photos on social media also show, he would now be in Donbass. From what emerged he would have done everything himself via the internet . He would have arrived in Poland by plane and from there by bus he reached the front.

(Unioneonline)

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