Italian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine on behalf of the Russians

A Leghorn is wanted, he would have hired mercenaries in Italy with military Kalashnikovs and uniforms of the Moscow army, who fight in Ukraine alongside pro-Russian troops. The last to be arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros is a young man from Messina recruited when he was just 23 years old. Investigators investigate the various levels of an organization that has been recruiting soldiers not only in Italy for years. The organization apparently operates between Ukraine and Italy and has in its “core business” the activity of recruiting and financing mercenaries who swell the ranks of separatist militias year after year. The investigative activity starts from afar, in 2018 in Genoa there were several arrests during operation 88 '. The arrested recruits, it turned out, had already fought in Turkey and Syria. Regarding the latest arrest of the Ros, the searches took place between Messina and Lodi, the last cities where the family of the wanted 28-year-old resided, who shared photos on social networks describing the 'war exploits' to show to relatives and friends. some of whom asked him for advice and directions to undertake the same activity. And from the searches, the role of any facilitators who would have facilitated and supported the young person could emerge. Just like his fellow soldiers, the 28-year-old fought with weapons and uniforms all belonging to the Russian army: an element that suggests how much the criminal network extends beyond the borders with the territory of the former Soviet Union. The main recruitment channel remains social networks. From a first facebook contact one ended in a short time thousands of kilometers from Italy to be enrolled in a real 'department' defined - transliterating the Cyrillic - 'Rota, writes the Ansa. In our country to move the strings at a distance would still be the wanted man from Livorno, called 'the generalissimo', on whom a European arrest warrant hangs.

Italian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine on behalf of the Russians

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