ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We will respect the pacts we have taken with our European allies, NATO and Ukraine. This year the package was prepared and I think it will be discussed at Copasir next week.” Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said this during Question Time at the Chamber.
“Why have we prepared this package? Because the situation in Ukraine has changed profoundly. Ukraine, until recently, managed to stop 90% of the attacks; now it stops 10% of the attacks because it has evolved exponentially Russian technology and the speed of these new Shahed makes it difficult – often impossible – to stop them. So the request has changed from Ukraine – the minister explained -. In the first defense packages you mentioned was a 360-degree request: send us anything, because it was a war that was beginning. As the war went on, the threats were circumscribed and asked for things that, as you know better than me, are not available. So the intensity of the packages was reduced precisely because, passing time and having sent aid, the things that really served were no longer there and were difficult to send.”.
“Despite that, we have prepared this thirteenth package while maintaining a commitment we had taken in the classroom and as a government and will continue to maintain it. As for the possibility of a diplomatic solution, we are parallelly trying to pursue it uninterruptedly for four years – said the minister -. There is, in fact, in parallel, a will of Italy, expressed in all the offices, to arrive at a diplomatic solution, to a just peace in Ukraine, which we hope from tomorrow morning. Our will to reach peace is made easier by the possibility that Ukraine resists, because the day when Russia perceives the impossibility of Ukraine to resist, the war would increase in intensity. So, those who think that a distrust of Italy, somehow, can end the war do not understand, first of all, that all other nations would continue to maintain the word and to help and that the possibility of conquering Ukraine would increase the Russian will to continue the war. It is a simple reasoning that I still share and share today”.
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