He was, naturally, the go-to fixer for any number of Italian journalists passing through the former Soviet Union. Children huddle in the cellar alongside jars of pickled vegetables in Slovyansk, Ukraine, in 2014. They asked him, they later told Italian investigators, if he knew anything about two journalists being killed two hours earlier. Zanoncelli then called in some of the journalists who had been on the phone call with Markiv on the night Andy and Andrei were killed. In Ukraine, Markiv is treated as a martyr.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2020 15:33 UTC