ROME (ITALPRES) – “Here I write the same words that I said yesterday in connection with the conference in Stresa, in the hope that the reasons will be accepted as a whole and not artfully cut as is often done in Italy. Do you like Trump’s plan or not? What does Italy think of Trump’s plan?”“…Next X Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.
“The first point is that Russia and Ukraine are talking about it: both countries have said that we can think of a plan that will end the war. – he continued -. This is the most important fact. Not because Ukraine, which has been asking for a just peace for three years, says so, but because Russia says so too. Now it takes a thousand steps, a thousand discussions, a thousand broken bones to heal, a thousand coercions, a thousand exclamations, to achieve the mediation that was first accepted by the people who sacrificed themselves for 1003 days in an effort to maintain their existence. I purposely wrote letters to people because that is what we have been trying to help fight in recent years, to the Ukrainian people and nation.”
“I said it yesterday and I repeat it today: the proposed plan is in my opinion very harsh on Ukraine and contains points that I think will never be acceptable but I consider it the starting point of the negotiations that we all hope for and that we must all work tirelessly on. – underline the minister -. Trump has now made us understand, with tariffs, with Gaza and in many other scenarios, what his tactics are: provoke, cajole, coerce, caress one day, slap the next. For weeks he has been pressuring Russia using oil influence and now he is offering a way out of the impasse in which Russia is trapped. Therefore, it would be wrong to ask the opinion of other countries, Europe or the international community regarding these 28 points. It is true that no one is talking but everyone is trying to work out 28, 25 or 32 points, acceptable to the parties, that will end the war, allow Ukraine to have a secure future and prevent the specter of war from spreading to Europe.”
“I repeat: I am not interested in judging the plan but using it to restart dialogue and stop the terrible sound of hundreds of bombs, missiles and drones that in the last 24 hours, as in the previous 1002 days, have massacred Ukraine.
This must be done immediately. In the last 24 hours, more than 1000 people, Russians and Ukrainians, were killed – Crosetto knot-. Csuch as in the previous 24 hours and the next 24 hours. This is war, this is the enemy that must be fought, the enemy that must be defeated. Maybe this imperfect plan gives us a chance to try. We’re trying to make it fair and possible.”
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