Russian President Vladimir Putin
eyed other countries after Ukraine, Premier Giorgia Meloni told
a G7 videoconference from Kyiv on Saturday.
Two years ago on this day, she said in her introduction to the
first G7 summit hosted by Italy as group president this year,
"Russia shocked the world by invading Ukraine.
"Putin's plan was a lighting war that was supposed to make
Ukraine capitulate in a few days, probably with the objective of
then turning his gaze towards other nearby states, not only
European ones."
But Putin "did not take into due consideration the tenacity of
the Ukrainians and the unity of the West.
"These are the two elements that made his plan fail".
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