President Volodymyr Zelensky asked on
Italian TV Thursday what Italian pro-Russians would have said if
Premier Giorgia Meloni, and not Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos
Mitsotakis had been with him in Odesa Wednesday when a deadly
Russian missile strike near their convoy killing five people.
"That part of society in the countries that support Putin does
not fully understand what war is, they do not feel it on their
skin," said the Kyiv chief, interviewed by veteran journalist
Bruno Vespa for the post prime time news five minute show Cinque
Minuti.
"I would like to ask you: if yesterday in Odessa when there was
the ballistic missile attack there had been not the Greek
premier but the Italian premier? If Giorgia Meloni had been
there, what would your people have said?
"Would this part of Italian society that does not support
Ukraine and supports Putin have remained indifferent? I don't
think so,' he added.
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