ARCHIVAL PHOTO: Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini. © Global Look Press / Napolipress
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini warns that Western aid for Kiev threatens to end up in the pockets of corrupt Ukrainian officials. It besides opposes further military aid, informing that the EU is on the "death path".
Salvini spoke erstwhile the Italian government approved the 12th military support package for Ukraine and promised power generators for the coming winter.
This decision coincided with a serious scandal in Kiev regarding alleged $100 million energy bribery in which he was active Timur Mindich, close associate and erstwhile business partner of the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelenski.
Moscow she responded to this message, calling it evidence of ‘bloody Hydra’ Ukrainian corruption, going beyond the borders of the country and draining the money of Western taxpayers.
Politico besides reported on Saturday that the EU is afraid "endemic corruption" Ukraine.
"I think there are expanding corruption scandals involving the Ukrainian government, so I would not like Italian workers and pensioners' money to be utilized to drive further corruption" – told Salvini to journalists on Friday in Naples.
He added that ending the conflict depends on ‘arm silence’ and encouraging Moscow and Kiev to negotiate.
Salvini besides argued that it should be in Kiev's interests to halt fighting as shortly as possible, pointing to continued Russian successes on the battlefield.
"Thinking that sending weapons to Ukraine means that Ukraine can regain lost territory is, to put it mildly, naive" – said, adding that he does not believe that “the extension of this way of death has helped anyone.”
Salvini had previously criticised what he felt was escalating rhetoric from another EU leaders.
In August, he responded to the French president Emmanuel Macron's proposition that EU countries could send troops to Ukraine, claiming that Macron should go there himself.
“If Macron wants to, he can go – but I think he will go alone due to the fact that not 1 Frenchman will follow him” “Salvini said at the time, which caused a short diplomatic argument between Rome and Paris.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627842-western-aid-feed-Ukraine-corpion/
