(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 22 - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky described his country as "the gate for the Russian army" to the EU and said that "they want to enter Europe" when he addressed the Italian parliament on Tuesday as his nation combats Moscow's invasion.
    "But the barbarism must not enter," he added.
    He also referred specifically to the desperate situation in Mariupol.
    "The Russian invasion is destroying families, the war continues to devastate Ukrainian cities," he said.
    "Some have been completely destroyed. Like Mariupol, which had half a million inhabitants.
    "It's like Genoa. Imagine Genoa burned to the ground". (ANSA).