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".
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