Is Italy in danger of going to war? “If we act as a united European Union and do what we are asked to do, Italy will not be at war. The compact European Union is the world’s largest peacemaking power“.
“With sanctions, we are collapsing the Russian economy. The ruble has lost 30% and the Moscow exchange has been closed for two days. This means avoiding a war that could affect the rest of Europe. Italy is committed to peace, it is Putin who wants war “.
Despite the West’s commitment to mediate, Russian President Vladimir Putin “with his lucid madness decided to enter Ukraine, a country that elected Zelensky with 73% of the votes and that president is democratically elected. He is undemocratic. what Putin is doing “. In the months preceding the attack launched by Putin, the minister emphasizes, “all the main leaders of the West tried to mediate with Putin. We did everything we could to make him think but he had already organized the invasion. He kept saying he wanted peace, but was amassing troops in Belarus and on the eastern border of Ukraine. When the Olympic truce ended in Beijing, it invaded Ukraine “, underlines Di Maio.
NEGOTIATIONS – “We must stop the war in Ukraine right now and to do that we must stop Putin. Some are under the illusion that Putin comes to the negotiating tables with kindness“.” We must continue to hit its economy with sanctions and to support the Russian people. He is not with Putin. He is oppressing him. 2,000 protesters have already been arrested “, Di Maio underlines.” We must encourage talks, a new round of negotiations will take place tomorrow. We hope that a humanitarian truce can be reached because we have to create humanitarian corridors and we are ready as a crisis unit and as a foreign ministry to take away many children, including cancer patients, many women on vacation and to bring them here and treat them in our hospitals “.
400 DEAD IN 4 DAYS – “We must oppose the Russian war propaganda, because it is not yet clear the level of atrocity that is taking place in that country” said Di Maio, denouncing that “in 4 days of war there were 400 deaths, including 20 children“.
PUTIN – “I am an animalist. I think that between Putin and any animal there is an abyss and certainly he is the atrocious one. And now he is paying a huge price”, says Foreign Minister Di Maio, answering a question from Giovanni Floris who citing the proverb ‘ when you hit the dog you leave the door of the barn open behind ‘because then you have to let him have the opportunity to escape he asked the minister what is the opportunity given to the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
“There are oligarchs who were on vacation in Europe who have had their current accounts blocked and can no longer pay anything. The Moscow Exchange has been closed for two days and the ruble has lost more than 30%“.
Putin’s displaced reactions, adds the minister, “signal his nervousness and we must continue like this and he will begin to retreat. The Ukrainians are a European resistance. Then if he takes Ukraine then Putin will start with another country on the continent and will continue to spread violence “.
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