Vitalii Markiv

Vitalii Markiv
Native name
Віталій Михайлович Марків
Born (1989-08-16) 16 August 1989
Khorostkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Allegiance Ukraine

Vitalii Mykhailovych Markiv (Ukrainian: Віталій Михайлович Марків; born 16 August 1989) is a Ukrainian former military commander of the General Serhiy Kulchytsky Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine. He was prosecuted and convicted by an Italian court for directing mortar fire that killed Russian dissident and journalist Andrei Mironov and Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli near the city of Sloviansk. His conviction was eventually overturned, and he was fully acquitted by Supreme Court of Cassation of Italy.

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