(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 27 - "Tomorrow in the UN Security Council there will be an important initiative on a humanitarian truce. We ask for a ceasefire" in Ukraine "to be able to evacuate women and children".
This was said by the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio at Che tempo che fa.
"This war has a name and a surname: Vladimir Putin", he added.
"There is a Russian civil society that is protesting in the squares where it is forbidden even to be bludgeoned, in support of the Ukrainian brothers - he stressed -. Ukraine is not a distant place, it is Europe. If anyone thinks that this war does not concern us, they are wrong . If we do not stop Putin with diplomacy, but also with sanctions, the next country could be another country in Europe ".
Negotiations can be held "if they are real and loyal", but only "provocations" came from Putin, he specified, underlining that "Ukrainian citizens have the right to become European citizens, to enter the EU or NATO democratically, they must not have fear of tanks ".
(HANDLE).