The clash between Rome and Moscow is escalating after Russia called the appointment of former Ukrainian minister Fedorov as an advisor to the Italian Ministry of Defense “ridiculous.” “I understand they would prefer that someone who listens to Moscow first could make decisions for Italy,” commented Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, “but for now it is not like that yet, and decisions are made thinking only of Rome and not Moscow, Kiev, or Washington.”
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The minister thus wanted to respond to the words of the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, who had indeed called the appointment made by the Italian Ministry of Defense “very ridiculous.” “But there is something positive,” Crosetto added, “if (the spokesperson) has read Rodari, which I doubt, she will have understood that we do not want to end up like the mouse that ate the cats, so field experience is also needed. But I doubt that she or our compatriots, whom she wanted to mobilize with her message, want to accept it, because they would want us weak and defenseless.”
This morning on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (VEF), and as reported by the Russian agency Tass, the spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, had called Crosetto’s appointment “ridiculous” and “worthy of a Gianni Rodari satire.” “If Gianni Rodari were alive,” Zakharova added, “I think he would write a satirical fairy tale about it, but I am not sure it would be funnier than this true story.”
According to the spokesperson, the affair “would be an example of how the ‘managers’ in Kiev turn military defeats into personal international contracts.”
Fedorov recently announced that he had become Crosetto’s advisor, explaining that his role will be to contribute to the Italian development of “modern warfare technologies.”
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