“I ask you to forget about the political disagreements between the new government and the unchanged leaders of these departments and to exert maximum efforts for issuing Ukraine ... Vitaliy Markiv,” the press service quotes Zelensky.
Earlier, a court in Italy sentenced Markiv to 24 years in prison in the case of the death in the Donbass of the Italian reporter Andrea Rokkelli.
Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov called the decision of the Italian court shameful and unfair.
In May 2014, Italian journalist Andrea Rokkelli and his translator Andrei Mironov, a Russian citizen, were killed under Slavic, shot at them with mortar shells. The investigation later found out that the Italian reporter had been shot at intentionally.