Moscow accuses NATO of pressuring Rome

Relations between Italy and Russia are going through the worst crisis since the end of the Second World War. We certainly remember Italy’s role in that war, but we also remember the value and positive period of our relations which spanned 80 years, a very long time during which we maintained highly constructive cooperation with Italy”, said the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in a speech at the Global Fact Checking Network webinar. Italy, she added, “is the subject of pressure from NATO, from the Anglo-Saxon world, and from this ultra-liberal dictatorship”. “Our relationship is on hold at the moment. I am not only referring to official contacts but also to economic and financial relations. I would like to believe that they are not finished but only suspended. This situation is not part of our way of doing things, not of Russia’s way of doing things, but emerges from the pressures to which Italy is subjected.”