Ukraine, pilot Giulia Schiff fights as a volunteer

She went to fight at the front. The pilot Giulia Schiff, 23 years old from Mira, who in 2018 was expelled from the Aeronautical Academy of Pozzuoli after having reported having undergone a kind of “initiation rite”, she left alone, in secret, for Ukraine: at the beginning of the conflict, she enrolled as a volunteer in the “International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine”, a military unit created under the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelensky for the defense of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. She then she communicated it to Roberta Rei, the correspondent of the “Iene”, to whom she delivered her “reportages” that will be broadcast this evening on the Italia Uno program.

He wrote it on Facebook a month ago, on February 25: «I do not see from Europe the reaction that the destruction Ukraine is undergoing by Putin deserves. There is no justification for not reacting. We need to help a country that cannot defend itself, invaded by one of the world’s powers, among other things with ridiculous reasons … even more so that it is our neighbor ».

Giulia Schiff she is the only woman in the legion: after a training phase lasting a few days, she left for the first missions around Kiev. “I’m against the grain,” she wrote. “While many are fleeing, I head towards the areas of the fighting.” Obviously, for security reasons, it is not known exactly where it is.

He explained to Roberta Rei that he did not want to return to Italy until the end of the conflict. Her priority is to fight the advance of the Russian forces. “How many useless words, but what penalties?” She had written on her social media. “Why can we really help and instead we just watch? Are they really worried about the price of gas and the refugees who will emigrate? All this hypocrisy will have consequences. Shame”. Private Schiff says he is “born for this, to help our Ukrainian brothers and to prevent war from reaching us“.

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