“I hoped to the last that he wouldn’t do it. We called President Putin before the war started: we parted with the understanding that we would be angry.” In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Prime Minister Mario Draghi reaffirmed the results achieved by the government and revealed an unprecedented backdrop to relations with the Kremlin before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The day of announcing the president’s positivity is also the day of the controversy against the prime minister.
Draghi tries to stop Putin. The joke of the year. pic.twitter.com/UIFhVHT4eS
Diego Fusaro (@DiegoFusaro) April 18, 2022
“Vladimir Putin wanted to destroy Ukraine. I tried to convince him to stop it,” Draghi revealed in the lengthy interview. A few weeks later, however, the Russian President launched the offensive. And just the sentence about the assassination attempt by the Italian prime minister against the tsar blew up the philosopher against the prime minister. Fusaro relaunched an excerpt from an affaritaliani.it title that echoes Draghi’s words published in the interview, arguing: “Draghi is trying to stop Putin. The joke of the year”.