Meloni asks Italians to turn off lights to understand Kiev

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 22 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday urged Italians to switch off their lights for one hour in order to grasp the plight of Ukrainians struggling with power cuts amid a relentless Russian missile barrage.
    "In all cultures this is the moment of the victory of light over darkness, but instead Ukraine lives almost all its days without electricity. To understand how the Ukrainians are, I would ask all the Italians to switch off for one hour a day all the energy they have, to understand what it means to have people defending freedom and love of country," said Meloni, speaking at the Conference of the Ambassadors of Italy in the the world.
    She also told the envoys that it was a mistake to depend too much on the US for security.
    "We have realized the over dependence, the strategic error in terms of sovereignty that you make by giving up certain chains of value, the energy reliance on Russia, and we probably realize the excessive dependence on the United States in terms of security," she told the envoys.
    "And we are aware that it would not be smart to emerge from the dependence on Russia by favouring a dependence on China. Another mistake we risk making". (ANSA).