Ukraine: Ballet dancer back in Rome safely

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 4 - An Italian ballet dancer who had been blocked by the Ukraine war in Kyiv arrived back safely in Rome on a scheduled commercial flight from Bucharest Friday.
    Bari-born Giordano Signorile, 19, landed at Rome's Fiumicino Airport after being rescued earlier this week in a joint operation by Italian intelligence services and the foreign ministry.
    He came back to Italy via Moldova and Romania in a 48-hour journey, his mother said on Facebook.
    Signorile had lived in Ukraine for five years where he was training to become a professional ballet dancer.
    He took refuge in his school, the Ukrainian Academy of Dance, after the start of the Russian offensive last Thursday.
    Together with two friends, a young man and a young woman of Chinese origin, he hid in the academy's underground garage during the bombing in the Voskresenka quarter, about 40 kilometres from the centre of the Ukrainian capital.
    Upon arrival in Rome Signorile said "I'm in Italy and I'll soon be home and it still doesn't seem real to me.
    "I'm incredulous and very happy and I thank infinitely the anti-molestation observatory". (ANSA).