(Finance) – “I think it was a defeat from a military point of view disastrous for Russia. It was not a staging, the siege of Kiev was not a pretense to then go to Donbass. It was an attempt to take over of Ukraine to take the capital and install a friendly government. Three days after the invasion, the Russians officially said that President Zelensky had fled to Poland. could solve in a few days “.
This was stated by the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, spoke on la7a of Tuesday broadcast this evening, underlining that “retreating to the Donbass is by no means something reassuring because the war could become even more heavy and bloody in these regions where there has been a low intensity war for ten years “.
“In order to reach a negotiation that is not the fact of giving the green light to the aggression of a free and independent country, Ukraine must continue its resistance and make possible a real understanding and not a surrender. And this I believe is the effort. that we must all do because one an invasion that does not find resistance prepares a new invasion that is more dangerous than the previous one “, he added.
Gentiloni also said he was “very impressed that this time the sanctions came quickly and unanimously. a military invasion in the heart of Europe, the first choice to make was whether to respond on a military level and no one has made such a proposal. And so we decided to respond through an economic and diplomatic response. Doing so comes at a cost. But we also do it to prevent the victory of an autocratic regime that would have disastrous consequences for the European balance “.