Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Sunday that he was starting to believe that it was just a waste of time to engage with his counterpart in Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.
It is useless to talk to him, it is just a waste of time, and that is what those people are saying to me, according to the Italian daily.
The Russian leader had discussed the possibility of Italy buying Russian gas with rubles during a March 30 telephone call with Draghi. 40% of the country's gas comes from Russia.
The prime minister said both sides would speak in the next few days.
After Russian forces left the area, authorities uncovered mass killings of civilians in the suburb of Bucha.
The prime minister said he believed that the French president was right to try every possible avenue of dialogue, since he had tried to position himself at the forefront of the EU's negotiations with Putin.
The horror of war with its carnage, with what they did to children and women, is completely independent of the words and phone calls that are made.
The prime minister said that Putin's goal has not been the search for peace, but the attempt to destroy the Ukrainian resistance.
When asked if he shared the same opinion as President Joe Biden about the killings of the people of Bucha, he said: "What do we want to call it if not war crimes?"
The Italian prime minister said the termsgenocide andwar crimes have a precise legal meaning.
There will be a way to check which words best fit the actions of the Russian army.
The former chief of the EU Central Bank, Mario Draghi, was appointed prime minister in February 2021.
In recent weeks, Draghi encouraged European nations to band together and cap prices on Russian gas, as he sought to diversify Italy's gas imports via deals across Africa.
The European Union's market power is a weapon to be used, he said.
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