Berlusconi: Zelensky will go to negotiations if West stops military assistance

Ukraine can go to negotiations with Russia if they cease to help it weapons and in return will only offer help in restoration. So believes the former Italian Prime Minister, leader of the party “Forward, Italy!”, Coalition in the current government coalition, Silvio Berlusconi. It is reported by La Repubblica.

“(negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation) are possible only if at some point Ukraine understands that it can no longer count on weapons and help, and if in return the West promises to provide it with hundreds of billions of dollars to restore cities destroyed by the war. In this case, Zelensky may agree to sit down at the negotiating table, ”Berlusconi said in an interview with the Italian journalist Bruno Vespi.

to the objections of a journalist that Russia should withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine before negotiations, Berlusconi said that the issue of Crimea entering the Russian Federation should not be discussed, but a new referendum under the control of the West should take place in the Donbass. Leader “Forward, Italy!” I am also convinced that Putin is “man of the world.”

The leader of the Center Opposition Parties “Action!” Carlo Calendy, saying that “Berlusconi continues to propagate in favor of Putin, despite the consequences.”