Benjamin Giorgio Galli, 27 years old from Varese, died while he was fighting with the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine against the Russian army.
On his Facebook profile of him, in which he appears in uniform and weapon in hand, condolences to his family appear and a message in which he is defined as "hero of Ukraine".
Galli was originally from Varese even though he had moved to Holland for years,
the second Italian foreign fighter who died in Ukraine at the age of 27
while fighting the Russian army.
Benjamin Giorgio Galli had enlisted with the international brigade fighting alongside the Kiev forces in early March and was in the area south of Karkhiv when he was killed in a bombing raid.
His injuries were too serious, Galli died at the hospital in Kiev, where his parents, Italian father and Dutch mother are now, to take his body home.
"The best uncle in the world, I miss you", wrote his sister Anna on facebook, receiving condolences.
Growing up in the province of Varese, Benjamin Galli had moved to the Netherlands and also had Dutch citizenship.
He had been in Ukraine since last spring and had enlisted in the ranks of the Kiev army, posting some uniformed photos on his profile.
"I love you, you will always be in my thoughts, your smile will be in my prayers, brother Ben, hero of Ukraine", wrote one of his comrades in English.