Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine two years in the past was the precursor to the Hamas militant group’s assault on Israel final October, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned in an interview revealed on Saturday.
“If Russia had not invaded Ukraine, in all probability Hamas wouldn’t have launched such an assault towards Israel,” Meloni instructed Italy’s Il Giornale newspaper, referring to the October 7 assault by which Hamas militants killed 1,200 individuals in Israel and kidnapped 250 others.
“It was inevitable that such a severe violation of worldwide regulation, furthermore by the hands of a everlasting member of the U.N. Safety Council, would have cascading penalties on different areas of the world, from the Center East to the Balkans, as much as Africa,” Meloni mentioned within the interview, which was revealed as she arrived in Kyiv to mark the second anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.