Italy will not send soldiers to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said in Reggio Calabria in response to a journalist's question. Tajani was responding to the statement of French President Emmanuel Macron, who previously said in a newspaper interview that NATO should send ground troops if the Russians break through the Ukrainian defense lines and Kiev asks for help from the West.
"We have always said that we are not at war with Russia, and that is why we are not sending Italian soldiers to fight in Ukraine"
- emphasized Tajani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, leader of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party in the province of Reggio Calabria, in response to a journalist's question.
"We defend Ukraine's right to be an independent state. But we are not, I repeat, we are not at war with Russia"
Tajani added.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, president of the League party, wrote on X: "Never let a single Italian soldier die in the name of Macron!" Earlier, British Foreign Minister David Cameron also ruled out the possibility of NATO sending soldiers to the battlefield in Ukraine.
Featured image: Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani/MTI/EPA/Olivier Matthys
