What role did they play Russians in our national borders during the Mission in Italywhich took place last March 2020 when our country attempted this tackle the pandemic? According to reports from Il Corriere della Sera, some Italian Defense and Intelligence sources claim that at that time a espionage attempt. The destinations of the delegation sent by the Kremlin would have been the military air bases of Ghedi in Lombardy and Amendola in Puglia. Hence the decision of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic to continue the investigation.
What we do know is that the Russians arriving in Italy were assigned an escort of our soldiers as ordered by the General Luciano Portolano, then at the head of the Joint Operations Command. The Corriere reports on an altercation between him and the General Sergei Kikot, Head of the Russian delegation. Kikot would have liked to move on the basis of a throughout the Italian territory “Political agreement at the highest level”, but General Portolano protested. “Here we are in Italy and it’s done as I say”, he would answer. So the Russians had to “remain at least fifty kilometers away sensitive sides“.
In addition, General Portolano had feared the risks of what he described as a “hybrid” operation. Suspicions included the fact that the Russians had proposed to rehabilitate an area near Brescia ghedi, where is the italian airbase where the 61. Herd. The Russians were therefore prevented from advancing while the Italian defenses began to demonstrate a some nervousness. But also inside Puglia The Russian delegation asked to carry out a remedial measure. Here it is amendola, the largest Italian military airport where the 32. herd. Lorenzo Guerini, The Minister of Defense then decided to send the Russians home and reduce the units from the original 400 to 104.
