The political crisis in Rome could deprive Ukraine of weapons and prevent the introduction of the ceiling on the price of gas in Europe. The alarm was raised by the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio.
"The Russians are celebrating right now that they have brought down another Western government," Di Maio said. " Now I doubt we can send weapons " to Ukraine.
The words of the head of the Farnesina found an immediate echo in Kiev. Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, hoped that " the traditional internal political struggle in Western countries does not undermine unity in the fundamental issues of the struggle between good and evil. In particular, on the supply of arms to Ukraine. ". "We cannot allow the Kremlin to use political competition as a weapon to undermine democracies," Podolyak added.
The spokesman of the European Commission for foreign affairs, Peter Stano, intervenes from Brussels, specifying that " the delivery of military aid to Ukraine is the responsibility of the Member States , not of the EU".
On the fighting front, Kiev accuses Russia of using Europe's largest nuclear power plant - that of Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine - as a base for storing weapons, including "missile systems", and for bombing surrounding areas. of the country.
The plant has been under Russian control since the first weeks of the invasion, although it is still managed by Ukrainian personnel. The situation at the Zaporizhzhia plant is "extremely tense", with up to 500 Russian soldiers controlling the plant , said Energoatom president Pedro Kotin.
"The occupiers bring their equipment there, including missile systems, from which they are already bombing the other bank of the Dnipro River and the Nikopol Territory," Kotin added in a television interview. The Russians " physically control the perimeter (of the plant). The occupants' equipment and their trucks with weapons and explosives remain in the area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant", he specified, stressing that "the pressure on the occupants to leave the plant is insufficient".
