The Ukrainian national guardsman has been sentenced in Italy for the alleged complicity in the deaths of an Italian reporter and his Russian interpreter in the Donbas warzone in 2014.
The first part of The Wrong Place documentary was aired at the Italian Senate this week to address a high-profile case of a Ukrainian national guardsman Vitaliy Markiv, whose sentencing in Italy Ukraine has branded "politicized" and in Russia's interests.
The authors of The Wrong Place dig deeper into the circumstances of the deaths of Italian reporter Andrea Rocchelli in Donbas six years ago, according to RFE/RL.
They also look into the charges pressed against Markiv who was part of the Ukrainian Anti-Terrorist Forces fighting off Russian hybrid proxy forces in eastern Ukraine.
Cristiano Tinazzi, the documentary's director, says the task of the journalistic investigation was to probe the Rocchelli-Markiv case more deeply, rather than defending the positions of defense or prosecution.
"With this film, we propose to open a debate to better understand a resonating case, we propose to go all the way to find the truth," said Eleonora Mongelli, deputy head of the Italian Federation for Human Rights.
It is noteworthy that the event was attended by a representative of the Democratic Party (with the government coalition), Senator Roberto Rampa.
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The audience was shown a 35-minute fragment, where the authors revealed new facts and talked with witnesses who have not been involved in the trial.