In an interview published today with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that while his solidarity with the West and NATO cannot be questioned, he is “distressed that nobody but the Pope and the Holy See seems to have solutions that go towards a peaceful solution of a conflict for which we are paying with an intolerable number of lives, suffering as well economic damage to the entire world.”
His statements were covered by RT, which reported them, and which wrote that the Vatican “has on numerous occasions called for a peaceful end to the fighting and has expressed readiness to facilitate negotiations between Moscow and Kiev. Last year, Pope Francis called on President Vladimir Putin to stop Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and urged his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to be ‘open to serious proposals for peace.’” (https://www.rt.com/news/570475-berlusconi-russia-ukraine-resolution/)
