Moscow was interested in the events of the Italian government and its possible destabilization.
La Stampa writes it today, in an article signed by Jacopo Iacoboni recalled on the front page, in which a background is proposed regarding the contacts made by the adviser for international relations of the leader of the Salvini League, Antonio Capuano, with Oleg Kostyukov, 'important official of the Russian embassy in Italy.
La Stampa reports excerpts of intelligence documents, with talks between the Carroccio adviser and the Moscow official, two months before the fall of the government, in the period in which the Lega and the Five Star Movement took sides against a new shipment of weapons to the 'Ukraine.
'The diplomat,
by showing the possible Russian interest in destabilizing the balance of the Italian government with this operation - writes La Stampa citing intelligence sources - he would have asked if the ministers of the League were willing to resign from the government '.
The Turin newspaper claims that Kostyukov is the man who bought the tickets for Matteo Salvini's mission, which was later skipped, in Moscow and reconstructs the phases of those relations, noting that the conversations between Capuano and Kostyukov on the situation of the Italian government take place between 27 and on May 28th, while the day before, on the 26th, Prime Minister Mario Draghi tries to unblock the wheat crisis by talking to Putin on the phone.
intelligence - would have asked if the ministers of the League were willing to resign from the government '.
The Turin newspaper claims that Kostyukov is the man who bought the tickets for Matteo Salvini's mission, which was later skipped, in Moscow and reconstructs the phases of those relations, noting that the conversations between Capuano and Kostyukov on the situation of the Italian government take place between 27 and on May 28th, while the day before, on the 26th, Prime Minister Mario Draghi tries to unblock the wheat crisis by talking to Putin on the phone.
intelligence - would have asked if the ministers of the League were willing to resign from the government '.
The Turin newspaper claims that Kostyukov is the man who bought the tickets for Matteo Salvini's mission, which was later skipped, in Moscow and reconstructs the phases of those relations, noting that the conversations between Capuano and Kostyukov on the situation of the Italian government take place between 27 and on May 28th, while the day before, on the 26th, Prime Minister Mario Draghi tries to unblock the wheat crisis by talking to Putin on the phone.
Salvini, 'Russian shadows on the government crisis? Nonsense '
- "They are nonsense. I have worked and work for peace and to try to stop this damned war. Imagine if I go to talk about ministers and deputy ministers, it seems to me the usual fantasy on which Putin is fascism, racism, Nazism, sovereignty. I don't think Putin is behind the waste-to-energy plant in Rome ".
Thus the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini on Radio 24 commented on an article in the newspaper La Stampa entitled 'Russians to Salvini's man, do you withdraw the ministers?'.
Di Maio, 'Salvini explain his relations with Russia'
- 'I believe that Salvini must explain his relations with Russia, in the same days in which he charged the ticket to Moscow in rubles, which he then returned'.
Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told the Morning News of Canale 5, commenting on the news that appeared today in the Press regarding an alleged conversation between the leader of the League and an important official of the Russian embassy in Rome who would have asked him if the League intended to withdraw the ministers from the Draghi government.
'We have to be careful of Russian influences on this election campaign,' Di Maio added.
Read, Salvini-Russia ties revelations are disturbing
- "Today's press reports on the ties between Salvini and Putin's Russia are disturbing, the electoral campaign begins in the worst way, with a huge stain on this affair. We want to know if it was. Putin to overthrow the Draghi government ".
The secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta said on the sidelines of the Coldiretti assembly.
Letta announced that he will be interested in Copasir and will prepare parliamentary questions: "If that were the case it would be something of an endless gravity. Salvini has not even managed to deny it with a statement that confirms all his dark ties".