{"id":1341205,"date":"2026-01-06T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/he-praised-putin-and-criticized-ukraine-border-guards-denied-entry-to-an-italian-with-pro-russian-views\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:04:44","slug":"he-praised-putin-and-criticized-ukraine-border-guards-denied-entry-to-an-italian-with-pro-russian-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/he-praised-putin-and-criticized-ukraine-border-guards-denied-entry-to-an-italian-with-pro-russian-views\/","title":{"rendered":"He praised Putin and criticized Ukraine: border guards denied entry to an Italian with pro-Russian views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Border guards denied entry to Ukraine to an Italian man who wanted to cross the border while publicly expressing pro-Russian views and justifying Russia&#8217;s armed aggression.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/suspilne.media\/1206848-a-lazu-ale-vono-ne-zaide-v-ukrainu-na-kordoni-zatrimali-italijca-u-visivanci-akij-vihvalav-putina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the spokesman for the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko in a comment to \u201cSuspilny\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, on the social network Threads, user Darya Melnychenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@d__melnichenko\/post\/DTIrpoSDJ_b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> a situation that arose during the trip from Italy to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the girl spoke in Italian, a man approached her and asked her many different questions. During the conversation, he began to criticize Ukraine and the president, praising Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the girl pointed out that with such an attitude one should not go to Ukraine, the man said that his wife&#8217;s house was supposedly there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darya wrote on social media that she would warn border guards at the Ukrainian border about the Italian&#8217;s pro-Russian views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believe that such people have no right to cross the border of our country,\u201d the post says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the user, the Italian Rocco and the woman who was traveling with him were taken for questioning. At the border, they took pictures of the man&#8217;s and Daria&#8217;s documents and promised that they would not let him into Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Border guards confirmed the Italian&#8217;s pro-Russian views and banned him from entering Ukraine for 3 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border guards denied entry to Ukraine to an Italian man who wanted to cross the border while publicly expressing pro-Russian views and justifying Russia&#8217;s armed aggression. This was reported by the spokesman for the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko in a comment to \u201cSuspilny\u201d. Earlier, on the social network Threads, user Darya Melnychenko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1285788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1341205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}