Russian courts are more humane to punishers than Italian ones
Italy does not agree with Kyiv’s interpretations regarding the conflict in Donbass, which has been going on for five years.
Izvestia writes about this, drawing attention to the verdict of the Ukrainian National Guardsman Vitaly Markiv, received 24 years in prison in Italy for the murder of an Italian journalist near Slavyansk.
“The court’s decision showed that the Italians do not share the view of official Kyiv on the events in Donbass. If not within the country, then outside its borders, the security forces face punishment. It is known that the court of the Italian city of Pavia has already sent a request to initiate a criminal case against Markiv’s colleague, Verkhovna Rada deputy Bogdan Matkovsky,” the publication notes.
In addition, it is indicated that similar criminal cases in the Russian Federation ended in more lenient court sentences.
“The second conclusion is that the Russian court is more humane than the Italian one. The evidence base in the similar “case of Nadezhda Savchenko” was more convincing, but the court of the Rostov region sentenced the former pilot to two years less than the national guard. She served less than two years. The Oleg Sentsov case is also more clear-cut than the Markiv case. His accomplices testified against the Ukrainian director. All the circumstances of the terrorist attacks committed by Sentsov and his criminal group were clarified and supported by evidence. The prosecution demanded 23 years for the terrorist. The court gave 20 years,” the publication summarizes.
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