The Italian prime minister justified sending weapons to Ukraine and acknowledged that Western leaders’ efforts to talk to President Putin had proved futile.
Mario Draghi said Italy’s decision to send weapons had received almost unanimous support in parliament.
“The terms of the issue are clear: the people have been attacked on the one hand and the aggressor on the other,” he said in an interview with the newspaper. Corriere della Sera.
Draghi said sanctions were essential but not enough to stop Russian troops in the short term.
“We need to help Ukrainians directly, and that is what we are doing,” he said in his first interview with an Italian newspaper after taking office 14 months ago. “No
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