Ukraine Meloni Putin Failed Push For Reconstruction

A year later, the Italian verdict on the Russian war in Ukraine sounds like this: Vladimir Putin's plan "has failed" Giorgia Meloni pronounces it and thus puts another point to the controversies and hesitations in his majority on support for Kiev.

There are none, assures the premier in the morning video message, inaugurating a day entirely devoted to the memory of the war brought back to Europe by the tsar who has Ivan the terrible and Peter the great as advisers (copyright Lavrov) Putin, the former head of the CIA Leon Panetta: "Soon he will have to decide whether to lose the war or accept a negotiation" THE LINE It did not go according to plan, Meloni explains speaking from Palazzo Chigi illuminated in yellow and blue on a key day for the Ukrainian cause : the EU Commission yesterday approved the tenth package of sanctions in Moscow, a trap on technological exports and against those who sell arms to the Russians (such as Iran).

"Moscow had to deal with the heroic reaction of a people willing to do anything to defend their freedom and with something stronger than missiles and tanks: love for their homeland" The trip to Kiev, the tour of horrors in Bucha and Irpin ("I saw it with my own eyes and I won't forget it") have given Rome back to a premier who is more determined than ever to make Italy the bridgehead of the front of the European political, military and economic assistance to Volodymyr Zelensky.

It is the message that Meloni delivers to the leaders of the G7 meeting by videoconference in the afternoon To the powerful of the world who are listening - Joe Biden smiles, Emmanuel Macron frowns, there is also Zelensky who thanks her again "for having chosen the enlightened side of history" - Meloni explains that it is now necessary to "keep up" the pressure on Moscow and also "to counter Putin's false narrative of the conflict, doubling efforts to get closer to what is called the global South».

There is also space for Italy's commitment to the reconstruction of Ukraine and the now official announcement of a bilateral conference in Rome for the end of April A priority for Meloni who spent a lot of money on the cause in the meeting in Kiev with Zelensky and has already set the institutional machine in motion with the first visit to the Ukrainian capital in January by the Minister of Industry and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso accompanied by the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi.

Economic recovery, military and political support without hesitation and smudges, is the message sent yesterday by the wheelhouse of Palazzo Chigi which finds external and internal sides On the first front, the premier receives the consent of the American government.

In an interview with his counterpart Antonio Tajani in New York, Secretary of State Antony Blinken let it be known that Italy is considered the "leader" in Ukrainian assistance The Atlantic axis exists and translates into two invitations: Blinken is expected in Rome at the Conference of Ambassadors, Meloni will be at the White House before the summer and will be able to recover the missed vis-a-vis on the runway of the Polish airport of Rzeszow.

In Italy, on memorial day, an assist to the prime minister's firm line instead comes from the highest hill Sergio Mattarella recalls "a long year of war of aggression by Russia", a war «to conquer territories or to annex them» absent in Europe «since the dramatic events of the Second World War».

In front of the young Bishops of the Republic, before receiving Vera Politovskaja, daughter of Anna, a journalist assassinated by the Russian regime twenty years ago, among the tapestries of the Quirinale, the Head of State clears the field of doubts «Peace requires a great work to achieve it, restore it, consolidate it.

But peace is not only the fruit of agreements between governments, peace is also the fruit of the feelings of peoples, of how people live and express themselves within them" Translated: Italy will work for a just and above all non-punitive peace towards the people attacked.

THE INTERNAL FRONT The call touches an exposed nerve in the majority The misunderstandings after Berlusconi's pro-russian outings were cleared up with a phone call between Meloni and the Cav on Thursday, the distances remain.

Yesterday neither the patron of Arcore nor the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini granted a statement in support of the Ukraine invaded a year ago Noisy silence that has certainly not gone unnoticed among the ranks of the Brothers of Italy.

Tajani minimizes from New York, "Berlusconi is disappointed in Putin, the others are exploited by those who want to sow discord, the government is as solid as ever" And at the same time the Foreign Minister throws cold water on the last ember in the debate on military aid to Kiev, the supply of jets that Meloni and part of the majority are considering handing over to the Ukrainian counterpart.

A complex issue, it takes months to train pilots and therefore at the moment "it is not on the agenda" .