League leader, Deputy Premier and
Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that French
President Emmanuel Macron and former Italian premier Mario Monti
should have their heads examined for suggesting the deployment
of NATO troops in Ukraine if Russia breaks through and Kyiv asks
for help.
"It upsets me that after Macron, even Monti is talking today
about sending Italian soldiers to fight in Ukraine," said
Salvini.
"These men must receive psychiatric care: those who think this
way and say it as if it were a normal thing, that goes for
Macron and Monti, are dangerous".
"Talking about Italian soldiers who may go to fight and die in
Ukraine, I consider it a very serious thing," he said.
The League's Alessandro Giglio Vigna, chair of the House EU
affairs committee meanwhile, said he had invited the French
ambassador to report to his panel on Macron's statements,
"softening" them.
Vigna said "directly sending EU troops to the Ukraine conflict
would be madness".
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