Russia’s war against Ukraine is Putin’s war of the Russian government. We will weaken him with more and more sanctions until he stops, until we reduce the money he needs to finance this war.” Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said about Rai Tre in his speech at “Che tempo che fa”.
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NEGOTIATED ”Negotiations are underway for a peace deal ”in Ukraine”, but before we achieve it we need to work on local humanitarian ceasefires on the ground Di Maio said And tomorrow, at the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU, Italy will ask set up a permanent table with the Red Cross and UNHCR, the conditions for establishing local ceasefires also along the lines of Sumy or Mariupol, where thousands of people were taken away, and bringing humanitarian aid”. “We must be successful in this enterprise because we do not have time to wait for peace agreements,” he stressed, and “priority must be given to areas where there are orphanages. From there we have to start as part of an EU initiative that can be successful”.
” Tomorrow morning I will hear from my Turkish colleague Mevlut Cavusoglu. Turkey plays a big role in achieving this peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, said the head of the foreign ministry. “We are in constant coordination with Cavusoglu to advance the peace process,” he added.
ZELENSKY President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who will speak in parliament on March 22, “will be welcomed with open arms by our democratic institutions,” said the Farnesina leader. “I was in Kyiv a week before the Russian attack and met many Ukrainian citizens who see the EU as their dream for the future,” Di Maio added. “These people are already a European people with ambitions to join our European family. We must not deny that hope, they have every right to it, and that scares Putin because people are looking at our free and democratic model, where propaganda has absolutely no power.
ITALIANS IN UKRAINE ” Now there are 276 ” Italians in Ukraine and ” we are following the cases that ask us for help said the Foreign Minister We are working hard on the evacuations ” and ” from 400 in a week went to 276 , the majority of them declare that they want to stay in Ukraine. But things are changing hour by hour.
VISIT BIDEN “The main purpose of the presence of the President of the United States in Europe is to reaffirm the principle of the unity of NATO, the EU and all our allies in the world,” said Di Maio. “This he stressed is another mistake in the assessment that Putin made, namely that it could divide us. Instead, it is no longer a conflict between East and West. And “What we will reaffirm with President Biden is that we are united, we condemn this war and we stand with the Ukrainian people who have been invaded by a Russian army who paid with lives”.
THREAT RUSSIA As for Russia’s threats against Italy, they are daily provocations that any country that is on the side of peace and the Ukrainian people receives from Russia. We don’t even notice it anymore, we can’t take these provocations as true,” said the foreign minister, who then “showed solidarity with Minister Guerini.” “Unfortunately, we are in good company,” added Di Maio, recalling the Russian threats “against Germany, France, Malta, all the countries that strongly condemn Putin for what he is doing.”
ARRESTS IN RUSSIA In Russia, there have been “over 15,000 arrests” of war opponents because “the Russian people do not support the invasion of Ukraine,” Di Maio said. “With his propaganda, with the arrests of those who protest against him, Putin continues to hide the truth, “in Russia there is no way to reach out with credible information. And yet thousands of people are demonstrating on the square “against the war.” This shows that it is not the Russian people who are supporting the invasion of Ukraine. It’s the government of Putin, the Russian government.”
ENERGY On the energy front, “all the countries I have visited in the last three weeks have agreed to expand the energy partnership with Italy, which will allow us to resolve all critical issues arising from Russian blackmail by winter “. The foreign minister named “Qatar, Algeria, Angola, Congo and yesterday Mozambique”. “For democratic powers like Italy there is always an alternative. We are never dependent on a single country and thanks to our history we can always build alternative routes to any blackmail,” he concluded.