https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/225d2c47fb2c9ef299497... It says "avevano combattuto nella regione ucraina del Donbass contro gli indipendentisti". So they were fighting against separatists.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Force_(Italy)#Presence_out...
> The investigations had begun about a year ago when the police headquarters in Turin, coordinated by the Central Directorate of Prevention Police, had monitored some people linked to political movements of the ultra right and who had fought in the Ukrainian region of Donbass against the separatists.
Wouldn't one expect at least that as part of fact checking?
Edit: Damn, so perhaps the poliziadistato.it article got it wrong. At least, according to Wikipedia.[0]
> Forza Nuova leader Roberto Fiore was once closely allied with the Ukrainian far-right Svoboda party, but following the beginning of the War in Donbass, Forza Nuova and Fiore "made a considerable shift to the pro-Russian camp." According to the Political Capital Institute, a Hungarian think tank, Forza Nuova is one of a number of Russian-backed radical right political parties in Europe.
But the supporting cites are from 2014-2015, so who knows?
Also, given that I don't know Italian, I don't really know what the police report said.
There's a fine line between making a genuine mistake and lying to your readers.
Hahaha.. as if the bank account was that full to begin with
"Mr. Fiore, of Italy’s Forza Nuova, said Moscow is now the sole guardian of Western values, in the way Rome once was."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/far-right-flocks-to-russia-to-b...