Thomas D’Alba, who had also served in the Italian army, in the Folgore, was killed in combat. The Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Maistrauk is news on X. Director of the Music School at Adnkronos: “When he wasn’t at the front he played for children”
Thomas D’Alba, an Italian who fought alongside Kiev’s forces, was killed in combat in Sumy, northern Ukraine. The news on X was the Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Mala Mala, remembering that D’Alba had also served in the Italian army, in the Folgore. At the moment of Alba it is officially dispersed, but it is believed to be dead.
A decade like Battery teacher at the Niccolò Paganini music school in Legnano, then, in 2024, the decision to go to fight alongside the Ukrainian forces. Thomas D’Alba “was a very good person, a lover of his students. There was a great displeasure when he left, he left during the school year”, he recalled, speaking with Adnkronos, the director of the Fabio Poretti Institute.
“He didn’t tell us what he would go to Ukraine, but we felt. He wrote me,” he added. And in the days of rest from the front, “he went to hospitals to play for children”. “In addition to a military commitment, there was the un oballive human commitment. Thomas was always available – said Poretti – and it is a great regret. It was shocking news”.