Rome “does not intend to waver” in that it support for Ukraine, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her visit to Kyiv Tuesday.
“I wanted To do this (come to Ukraine) to repeat Italy full support for Ukraine in the face of “The Russian aggression, to confirm that Italy does not intend to back down,” Meloni said at a joint press conference. with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
with the first holiday of Russians invasion just Days later, the Italian leader also He visited the cities of Irpin and Bucha just outside Kyiv Which was destroyed during Moscow’s failed attempt to capture the capital last year.
“It’s different, seeing it with own one eyes. I will do everything to tell every Italian what I saw.
Italy is a NATO member cash and weapons to help Ukraine, and earlier this month agreed to send mobile Surface-to-air missile systems that have joint developed with France.
But Meloni said sending the planes “isn’t the case on Table” for moment and it’s decision He is made “in consultation with international Partners.
Zelensky criticized earlier statements of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who He has a personal relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin is going back years.
“Mr. Berlusconi…his house It was never bombed with Rockets a day, I think. Thank God his partner from Russia did not drive in his yard on tank and did not destroy for him family Zelensky said.
Meloni took office in October and leads the brothers far right of Italy party But he has also distanced herself from more Pro-Russian partners in her rule coalition.
Berlusconi, who Forza Italia party He is the junior partner in The coalition sought to shift the blame for The war is far from Moscow, most recently earlier this week when he blasted Zelensky.
Meloni office Definitely responded as “firm and committed” support for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of The far right league partyhe have in the past Speak with admiration of Putin even wore a T-shirt with the Russian president’s crest on it face.
Former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited Kyiv in June 2022 with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
