'Ukrainians capture Italian pizza chef recruited by Moscow'

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - Ukrainain forces have captured an Italian pizza chef recruited by Moscow to serve in the Russian army invading its neighbour, Today.it reported Friday.
    The man, originally from Campania, who volunteered in the Russian army, was captured by Ukrainian special forces in Donbass in recent days, the online newspaper said.
    According to Today.it, the man is called Gianni Cenni, he is 51 years old, married with two children, and, according to the military record issued to him by the Russian Ministry of Defense and another document, he was recruited as a volunteer on November 13, 2024 to fight in Ukraine, where he was captured between January 7 and 8 in the area of ;;Kupyansk, in the Lugansk region, in a Ukrainian operation behind enemy lines.
    Today.it writes: "Thanks to work by Osint (open source intelligence) it was possible to trace his recent work activity in Russia, in the town of Samara, capital of the region of the same name on the Volga River, where he always worked as a pizza chef in the Italian restaurant 'Anima'". (ANSA).