Ukraine, lawyer returned to Italy: “We feared escalation, left colleagues in tears”

“Unfortunately, the escalation we feared has arrived”. Graziano Benedetto has been living and working as a lawyer in Ukraine for seven years but in the light of the ongoing crisis last Wednesday he left the country to return to Italy with his wife. “I have lived in Ukraine since 2015 where I met my wife, a doctor, and where I built my life – the lawyer Benedetto, who is also an accredited consultant at the embassy, ​​tells Adnkronos – but last Wednesday we decided to leave, I hope temporarily, and we drove back to Guardiagrele, my home town in the province of Chieti. It was not an easy choice to leave my home in Poltava, my study colleagues in Kiev, I saw them in tears ”. “Until a few weeks ago many thought it was an American bluff, now those who thought so have changed their minds and realized the imminent danger,” says Benedetto. “Many compatriots there have contacted me in recent days to ask me for advice and – he explains – I replied to all the same thing, ‘go away if you can’. I followed the advice of the embassy, ​​suggesting others to do the same. “A decision” not easy, especially for those who have lived there for years and no longer have anything in Italy, as an elderly Roman who chose to do not come back. “” I constantly hear from my collaborators and colleagues, yesterday they had a last hearing. Now one of them has been recalled to the army to drive a tank – the lawyer continues – We follow the developments suspended, waiting to understand what the evolution will be “.