Moscow: “Agreement on diesel is not Meloni's business”
"First of all, it's none of your business. Secondly, go back to sentence one," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting with ANSA on the words of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who criticized the agreement on Russian diesel announced by US President Donald Trump after the telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin.
Zelensky: “Thank you Meloni for your support and unequivocal position"
"I thank Giorgia Meloni for the support and for her clear, unequivocal and principled position. Thank you for understanding who the aggressor is and what it means to build a dignified and lasting peace. This is only possible through strength and joint efforts for our security", writes the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a post on
Zelensky: "Painful to see Trump choose the wrong side"
“It is painful when President Trump chooses a side that is not ours,” Ukrainian President Zelensky said in an interview with Piers Morgan, expressing fears that Kiev is losing US support. "It's a shame, we are losing a strong partner. That's my opinion," he said. Asked if he felt he was losing America, he replied: "Yes, but not through our fault." Morgan asked him if he felt betrayed after, within hours of Trump's announcement of an energy truce, Vladimir Putin launched a massive bombing of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. "Really, yes. But it's a little more complicated than my emotions or feelings. Our country must survive," Zelensky responded. "We cannot be weak, otherwise we cannot survive. We are not selling our country. For us it is not about business: it is our life, our country, our home, our children," he stressed. Zelensky clarified that Kiev can accept Trump's mediation role: "For us, it's fine for him to be in the middle. But if you're in the middle, you have to stay in the middle, not on the wrong side." The Ukrainian president then criticized the White House chief's advisors. "I think his advisors are wrong. I don't know who is pushing him in the wrong direction. This is not the right side of the story," he concluded.
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Trump-Putin agreement on diesel. Stop US sanctions on Russian diesel
The clash with FnV
The group leader of Futuro Nazionale, Edoardo Ziello, said: "We are very negatively affected" by Prime Minister Meloni's choice against the United States agreement with Putin because "she continues to support the line of giving money and weapons to Kiev. We need an agreement with Russia on fuel". Laura Ravetto also attacks: "Giorgia Meloni is going in the opposite direction and this is certainly a problem for us. We will express our opposition in the Chamber." In the Chamber's reply, the Prime Minister replied to Ravetto: "What we are doing on Ukraine is what is written in our program with which we presented ourselves before the Italians and we were also elected, she and all her colleagues: I am sure that the change of position at the end of the legislature is genuine and not determined by the risk of a failed re-election" but "in this case it would be more credible if you resigned and ran with the new theses that you support. Otherwise we are in front of the many cases of transformism".
Meloni at Futuro Nazionale: "If you don't defend Italian interests, which ones do you defend?"
"A new import of Russian gas would not lead to a reduction in the price, at least not for several years. If in reiterating this proposal Italian interests are not being defended, what interests are being defended? If you defend non-Italian interests you are not moralizing me", said the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Chamber, addressing the National Future MP Laura Ravetto, starting what she defined as the response to the "very wide field".
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Meloni: support for Ukraine is not an alternative to peace
