Vita gazette – Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fiercely critical of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, cited rulers and Ukraine’s aggressive politics as responsible for the war. He also said Western financial and war aid turned the special operation against Ukraine into a protracted war.

Silvio Berlusconi blames the Ukrainian military and Western aid for the continuation of the conflict to earthquake Italian politics. The second episode of his audio recorded at the meeting with the Italian deputies causes an even more shocking effect than yesterday. Berlusconi’s words are included in the second audio recording released by Laprise:

The cause of the war is the Ukrainian attacks

“Do you know how the Russia thing happened? Even on this, I beg you, however, the utmost confidentiality. Do you promise? It went like this: in 2014, in Minsk, Belarus, an agreement was signed between Ukraine and the two newly formed republics of Donbas for a peace agreement without anyone attacking the other. Ukraine threw this treaty to hell a year later and began attacking the borders of the two republics. I am told that the two republics suffer casualties among the military, who arrive at 5-6-7 thousand dead. Zelensky arrives and triples the attacks on the two republics. The dead become. Desperate, the two republics send a delegation to Moscow and finally manage to talk to Putin. They say: ‘Vladimir, we don’t know what to do; you defend us. He – he adds – is opposed to any initiative, resists, and undergoes strong pressure from all over Russia. And then he decided to invent a special operation: the troops had to enter Ukraine, reach Kyiv in a week, overthrow the government in office, Zelensky, etc., and set up a government already chosen by the Ukrainian minority of good and common sense people, another week to go back. He entered Ukraine and found himself faced with an unexpected and unpredictable situation of resistance on the part of the Ukrainians, who began to receive money and weapons from the West on the third day. And the war, instead of being a two-week operation, has become a two-hundred-and-one-year war. So, this is the situation of the war in Ukraine”.

Western weapons and financial aid turned the operation into a prolonged war.

 “Then he decides to invent a special operation: the troops had to enter Ukraine, reach Kyiv in one week, overthrow the government in office and impose a government already chosen by the Ukrainian minority of good and common sense people, another week to go back. But at that point, Putin faced an unexpected and unpredictable situation of resistance from the Ukrainians, who had begun to receive money and weapons from the West on the third day. And the war, instead of being a two-week operation, the war has become a war of two-and-a-half years”.

“There are no more leaders, neither in Europe nor in the US”

Berlusconi also added: “What is another risk, another danger that we all have: today, unfortunately, in the Western world, there are no leaders, there are none in Europe and the United States of America. I don’t tell you what I know, but there are no real leaders. Can I make you smile? The only true leader is me…”.

“Massacre of soldiers and citizens, strong intervention is needed”

“The war waged in Ukraine is the massacre of Ukrainian soldiers and citizens. If he said, ‘I don’t attack anymore, it was all over. So if there is no strong intervention, this war does not end”, he concluded.