(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 21 - Some have "underestimated the heroic reaction of a people willing to do whatever must be done to defend their freedom, sovereignty and identity".
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this in a press conference in Kiev with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
"It reminded me of the birth of the Italian state: there was a time when it was said that Italy was only a geographical expression. Macol Risorgimento has shown that it is a nation. Someone said that it was easy to fold Ukraine because it was not a nation. But with your ability to fight you have proved that you are an extraordinary nation."
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