Conte: “I don’t enjoy creating problems for the government but the goal of the Russian defeat risks being very dangerous”

The tooth always beats there. Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Giuseppe Conte explains to the foreign press that “We cannot have the goal of defeating Russia”. Why: “It is a goal that risks turning out to be very dangerous,” observes M5S leader Giuseppe Conte. Then, he goes back to the issue of sending weapons to the Ukrainian army. «Italy – explains the former head of the government – is now on its third decree to send weapons, but now we are two and a half months after the conflict and I believe now it is necessary to develop a more elaborate strategy on the part of the EU. It is news of these hours that the American Congress is deliberating an additional 40 billion dollars also in military aid to support Ukraine, I believe that not only Italy but also the EU in these moments, after this initial phase, it must concentrate its role and its efforts for negotiation and direction towards a political solution ”. Of course, he adds: “I don’t enjoy creating problems for the government.” In short, the former prime minister said: «If the EU does not play a decisive role in the direction of a peaceful solution and negotiations, it risks significantly losing its leadership. There can be no peace that does not see the EU as determining ». So to those who ask him about the tensions within the movement and especially between him is the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio about the line to follow in the war between Moscow and BiKiev, he replies: “If Luigi Di Maio is on my side regarding the position to stop sending weapons to Kiev? He is the minister of the M5S so we update on the evaluations. The latest update is from yesterday, so what often writes a malicious press that would represent a different position of the Minister of Esther does not correspond to the truth ». Di Maio, added the former prime minister, «shares this position, we have also shared it in recent weeks. These positions are also the result of an internal confrontation in our political bodies ».