Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine laid the ground for Hamas’s October 7 massacres in southern Israel, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says.
“If Russia had not invaded Ukraine, in all likelihood Hamas would not have launched such an attack against Israel. It was inevitable that such a serious violation of international law, moreover at the hands of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, would have cascading consequences on other areas of the world, from the Middle East to the Balkans, up to Africa,” she says in an exclusive interview with Italy’s Il Giornale newspaper.
“This is the game we are playing, and we must be aware. If international legality is not re-established in Ukraine, the outbreaks of conflict will continue to multiply,” she adds.
She also expresses support for a two-state solution, which she says is “in everyone’s interest, both Israel and Palestine.”
The interview is published as Meloni arrives in Kyiv to preside over a G7 summit marking two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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