Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto criticized Russia's foreign policy in a public statement. He pointed out that Russia successively launched attacks against Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia, and earlier Afghanistan, which shows that in the Russian way of thinking there exists an expansionist tendency to achieve territorial occupation by launching attacks.
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2026-10-18 08:14 · Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Russia: Russia attacked Ukraine, it attacked Crimea, Georgia, if we want to go further back, Afghanistan. So in the Russian mentality, there is the idea of a…
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2026-10-18 08:14 · Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Russia: I used the terms good and evil because when a state crosses another state's border with tanks, bombs hospitals, bombs schools, kills civilians, bombs…
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Italian Defence Minister Crosetto Criticizes Russia's Aggressive and Expansionist Mentality
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