The 'saga' between Silvio Berlusconi and Volodymyr Zelensky continues at a distance.
And this time it is the Ukrainian president who strikes the blow against the leader of Forza Italia.
"I believe that Berlusconi's house has never been bombed, tanks have never arrived in his garden", observes the president at war, as if to say that otherwise the Knight would never have thundered against him a few days ago .
The echo of those arrows reaches Arcore immediately.
Irritation mounts, even if it's the frost that envelops the villa and its tenant, shielding every comment.
A silence that appears even heavier.
Mouths sewn even among the loyalists of the blue patriarch but no one escapes the context of those statements.
Zelensky does not shy away from journalists' questions about the Cav and does so on the very day that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visits him in Kiev, is moved and reiterates Italy's closeness to the Ukrainian people.
But what doesn't go down well with many, in Forza Italia, is the reaction of the Prime Minister: the Cav's defense of him is perceived as too lukewarm and not very explicit.
Inappropriate, after a thrust that sounds particularly rude for the reference made by Zelensky to the co-responsibility of others: "Several leaders have the right to think, the real problem is the approach of the Italian company that gave that leader a mandate", remarks the president Ukrainian.
Perhaps useless at that point the invitation to "come and see with your own eyes the trail of blood" that has been crossing the country for a year.
An attack that also seems to weigh on the Italian mission in Kiev, with the memory returning to the words of the Cav on Putin and the Ukrainian president.
The latest dates back to February 12 when Berlusconi did not hide that, as Prime Minister, he would not have met Zelensky (as Meloni did) and that in any case "it was enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbass and the conflict would not have happened" .
A thesis already revealed to his parliamentarians - and disseminated in some audio stolen shortly before the birth of the Meloni government, in October - to argue that Putin's Russia "didn't want war" but Ukraine "tripled its attacks in Donbass" .
And so on up to admitting that he "rekindled relations a little with his friend-tsar,
author of a very sweet letter sent to Berlusconi on his last birthday, together with twenty bottles of vodka.
And Zelensky answered him clearly, creating no small amount of embarrassment in the Italian delegation present in Kiev.