For former head of government and Italian communications magnate Silvio Berlusconi, Russian President Vladimir Putin was “under pressure” to invade Ukraine and “replaced the government of (Volodymyr) Zelensky with a government of decent people,” in a state-TV program. . .
“Putin found himself in a really difficult and dramatic situation,” said the leader of Forza Italia (right), who ran for the legislative elections in a far-right coalition Thursday night.
Berlusconi, who visited Crimea after the peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, is considered a “friend” of Putin, whom he invited several times to his private estate on the island of Sardinia.
“Putin was pressured by the Russian people, his party and their ministers to invent this special operation,” he said.
A delegation from the two pro-Russian republics of Donbass went to Moscow, talked to everyone, to the radio, the press, the television, people from the (Putin’s) party, the ministers, and said: It has already cost 16,000 dead. Please defend us”.
“The Russian troops were supposed to enter Ukraine, arrive in Kiev in a week, replace the Zelensky government with a government of decent people, and return within a week,” the businessman said on the popular political program ‘Door to Door’.
“But they encountered unexpected resistance fueled by all sorts of weapons from the West,” Tycoon said. “The war lasted more than 200 days, the situation became very difficult, I feel bad when I hear about the dead because I have always considered war the madness of madness.”
Berlusconi’s statements sparked all sorts of backlash, so this Friday he reiterated his view of any war as “unjust” and reaffirmed his support for NATO, the European Union and the United States.
source: Noticias
