“We have no leaders in the world, we have no leaders in Europe. A world leader who should have met Putin at the mediation table, called him a war criminal and said he should leave the Russian government and go to jail,” former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi said at a party event in Northern Italy. “Another, NATO Secretary Stoltenberg, a 63-year old Dane, said that Donbass independence will never be accepted.” “With such premises, Mr. Putin is far from sitting at a table.”
Italy is at war, “because we send them weapons,” Berlusconi said. “Now, after light weapons, they told me that we are sending them tanks and heavy cannons – forget it. What does all this mean? That we will have a strong backlash from sanctions on our economy; growth already stopped, and we will have a drop in GDP. And there will be even more serious damages in Africa, and it is possible that we get waves of refugees. This is a danger coming from the war in Ukraine.”
