Berlusconi says he exchanged ‘sweet letters’ with Putin – – DeathInTown

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said today that he has reconnected with Russian President Vladimir Putin and recently exchanged “sweet letters”, according to audio released by the Italian news agency.

The 86-year-old Berlusconi, who often boasted of his friendship with Putin until Russia invaded Ukraine, said last month that Mr Putin was embroiled in war and that he wanted to leave Kyiv to “decent people”. It caused a storm.

Berlusconi told parliamentarians, “I keep in touch with Putin quite often, in the sense that he sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter for my birthday,” according to the released audio. Told. According to news agency La Press.

“I replied to him with a few bottles of Lambrusco (wine) and an equally sweet letter,” said Berlusconi, who celebrated his birthday on September 29.

He added that he was very concerned about the situation in Ukraine, but was unable to give his true opinion because “it would be a disaster if it came out in the press.”

The comments come as Berlusconi is negotiating ministerial posts in the new government following the September 25 Italian elections, which delivered a victory to the right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, who is due to be named prime minister next week. I’m coming when I’m

A Communist Party spokesman denied that Mr Berlusconi had been in contact with Mr Putin again, saying Mr Berlusconi had told parliamentarians “old stories referring to events many years ago”.

Forza Italia later released a statement saying that Mr Berlusconi’s and the party’s positions on the war were “in line with those of Europe and the United States” and that there was “no room for ambiguity and never before”.

The relationship between the Italian right-wing coalition and Russia is in the spotlight. The leader of the Anti-Immigration Alliance, Matteo Salvini, praised Putin and wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the Russian leader’s face.

Today the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives Lorenzo Fontana, a federation politician, warned of the consequences of the sanctions against Russia in an interview on state television.

“They could boomerang and we’d be in big trouble,” he told the talk show Porta a Porta.