We will send no Italian soldier to Ukraine, and the military tools that Italy sends are used inside Ukraine, we are working for peace. The messages coming from Russia also provoke the hybrid war that is being waged, but we must always work for peace and lower the tone,
We are an integral part of NATO, but every decision must be taken collectively,
Italy is not at war with anyone, and if it was right to help Ukraine militarily, then at the same time, it is out of the question to lift the ban on Kyiv to strike military targets in Russia. Just as I repeat, the Lega is against sending even one soldier to fight in Ukraine. We want peace, not the antechamber of World War III,
For the time being they are blocking everything connected to the military support to Ukraine,
If this moment ever comes, then the discussion about sending troops will have to be held not so much within Estonia, but with our allies. However, Ukraine itself does not see the necessity for this at the moment,
This is not my decision, nor even the decision of the government. The parliament will make the decision about the deployment of troops."
Ukraine has to tell us what she wants us to do about their citizens. What I certainly don’t believe is that there is a human right to be paid social security for being a draft dodger. Those people fighting at the front also have human rights.”
Europe didn’t just disarm, it deindustrialised in the defence field,
Always declaring what our own red line is only invites Moscow to tailor its hostile actions to our constantly changing self-imposed limitations.”
Your government has to decide what you want. I think the initiative has to come from you, and you can count on Poland being very receptive to those ideas.”
The Russians are hitting the Ukrainian’s electricity grid and their grain terminals and gas storage capacity, civilian infrastructure. The Russian operation is conducted from the HQ at Rostov-on-Don. Apart from not using nuclear weapons, Russia does not limit itself much.”
Companies were telling me, ‘We read in the newspapers that there is all this demand for armaments but we are not getting the long-term contracts. And if we don’t have a 10-year contract, we are responsible to our shareholders. We can’t make the investments.’ So it’s about guaranteeing them that this is not just for tomorrow, but this is a long-term rearmament and change in security.”
We have allowed all those production facilities to be closed down after the end of the cold war. It costs money to persuade companies to keep production lines in reserve. We just didn’t pay the money. That was part of the peace dividend. And with hindsight it looks like a mistake. It is obvious that Europe is lagging behind, and the EU’s defence and technological and industrial base suffers from years of underinvestment.”
NATO's strength is not comparable to Ukraine's. A hundredfold, maybe a thousandfold, so I don't think it's logical to assume that Russia, who can't even deal with Ukraine, will suddenly come and catch the whole Western world,
If the Russians were strong enough to defeat the Ukrainians in one go, they would have been defeated, but that's not what we're seeing,
We highly value the incredible level of support for our state from the side of Poland and the Polish people,
The situation with energy was discussed separately. We rely on Poland’s assistance in the supply of the necessary equipment, mainly generators, modular boiler rooms and gas turbines. We intend to decentralise the Ukrainian power system in order to make it less vulnerable to the enemy,
We’re grateful to Poland for joining the Czech initiative of funding the procurement of artillery ammunition for Ukraine, as well as for the recent decision of the Polish Parliament concerning the extension of temporary protection for the citizens of Ukraine,
We are convinced that good coordination of political initiatives by individual governments and parliaments is essential to maintaining broad international support for Ukraine,
We will do everything to ensure that the process of Ukraine's integration with the European Union and Ukraine's negotiations with the European Union begin this year. Of course, it will be a long and complicated process, but it is better that it starts,