The reactions of the international press to Berlusconi’s words on Zelensky-Corriere.it

The words of Silvio Berlusconi
on the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky bounced – once again – in the international press. I talk to Zelensky? If I had been the prime minister, I would never have gone, because we are witnessing the devastation of his country and the massacre of his soldiers and civilians, said the leader of Come on Italy to journalists after having voted for the Regionals, in Milan.

Reuters, one of the most authoritative news agencies in the world, picked up on Berlusconi’s outburst, recalling that it is not the first time, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February a year ago, that he indulges in outbursts similar. Berlusconi, 86, has often bragged about his friendship with the Russian president Vladimir Putin until’Russian invasion of Ukraine
. He unleashed a storm last September after claiming that Putin had been pressured into war and that he wanted to put “decent people” in charge of Kiev.

Palazzo Chigi not left to wade. After reiterating that the government’s support for Kiev is firm and convincedMeloni reminded Berlusconi that the majority voted in favor of Ukraine in all parliamentary votes.

Even the American weekly Barron’s, founded in 1921 as a sister publication of the Wall Street Journal, insists that the 86-year-old tycoon has always boasted that he is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Sunday, his pro-Russian statements quickly elicited a response from the Meloni government.

The schema does not change for French-language sites either. LaPresse headlines: Silvio Berlusconi attacks Zelensky. Not the first controversial statement by Silvio Berlusconi, 86, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin when he was in power.

The Italian government has expressed its “firm” support for Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion, after Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi, a member of the governing coalition, criticized the Ukrainian resistance, write the Swiss di swissinfo.ch. Berlusconi has openly criticized the Ukrainian president on several occasions, most recently today, even going so far as to blame him for the war.

He also has his say Flythrough the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharov. It’s not up to me to judge and vote for Berlusconi, these are things that concern Italians. I limit myself to the facts, and the facts say that for eight years, since 2014, Russia has insisted that the Minsk accords be applied for peace in Ukraine. But this was not what the West had in mind.