According to our intelligence, there are about twenty people.
They are the Italian fighters in Ukraine, on both sides of the two sides.
Benjamin Giorgio Galli is so far the second foreign fighter who lost his life in the conflict caused by the Russian invasion: the first was Edy Ongaro, a militant in the ranks of the pro-Russian Donbass separatists, killed last March 30 by a hand grenade in a holiday north of Donetsk.
This Italian 'legion' in the theater of war is closely monitored by 007 and the police.
There are those who started out of political conviction - far right or far left - but some are also mercenaries attracted by the lure of pay.
And there are also those who have returned, frightened by what he has seen and immediately.
This is the case of Ivan Luca Vavassori, a 29-year-old former footballer who had gone to the front in the ranks of the international brigades at war against Putin's troops.
The decision to return came following a hospitalization with a high fever and some injuries after surviving a Russian attack in Mariupol.
The young man, born in Russia, was adopted by the entrepreneur Pietro Vavassori and his wife Alessandra Sgarella, kidnapped by the 'Ndrangheta in'
There is also a woman among the Italian fighters, the twenty-three-year-old Giulia Schiff, a stormy past as a pilot in the Air Force: she flew to Ukraine to fight as a volunteer in the Special Forces of the International Legion.
Schiff has made it known that she fights in an Army Brigade "with rank and regular military allowance".
And at her front he also found her love, as she told the newspapers herself, talking about her about her relationship with a fellow soldier.
A 19-year-old Genoese young man, Kevin Chiappalone, is instead the first investigated among the Italian fighters in Ukraine.
The boy, a sympathizer of Casa Pound, went to support the resistance against the Russians.
The prosecutor of the Ligurian capital accuses him of being a mercenary enlisted in the Ukrainian International Brigade and faces a sentence of two to seven years.
Digos' investigation had started following the young man's statements to the weekly Panorama in which he announced that he wanted to leave to defend Ukraine after hearing Putin talking about "denazifying the country".
He too claims that he is not a mercenary, but a regular soldier in the ranks of the International Legion.
It is said that Giuseppe Donini, 52 years old from Ravenna, would be part of the Azov battalion.
In his case it is a long-standing militancy, since there is a video of him in the region that dates back to 2016. With him was Valter Nebiolo, who instead returned to Italy.
In the Donbass, but on the opposite front, that of the pro-Russians, there would be Andrea Palmieri, former head ultrà of Lucchese, right-wing extremist.
For Italy he is a fugitive who has to serve 5 years for having been a recruiter.