Italy says West risking WWIII by arming Ukraine amid invasion of Russia
Italy has warned of a dramatic world conflict if Ukraine’s Western allies continue to send more weapons to the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Speaking to an Italian media outlet, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that providing the Kiev government with more weapons “could trigger World War III.”
He said that “sending of weapons to strike and kill also on Russian territory would be a disaster, the antechamber of a dramatic world conflict.”
Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, the deputy prime minister of Italy made clear that Rome “will no longer approve sending any type of weapon unless we have the certainty that those weapons will not be used to attack and kill inside Russia.”
“It would be the incident that takes us straight towards the Third World War.”
Ukrainian forces invaded across the border with Russia in early August, advancing up to 30km into the Russian region of Kursk.
Russian authorities said Ukraine attacked the Kerch bridge with two "unmanned surface vessels" (USVs) – drones that travel over water rather than through the air.
They said Kiev used Western rockets – likely made in the United States – to target a strategic bridge over the Seym River in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying to evacuate civilians.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has pledged a decisive response to the first invasion of his country since World War II.
He has repeatedly warned that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike deep inside Russia, which he said could trigger a global conflict.
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