President Sergio Mattarella said that Italy will also provide financial and humanitarian assistance to UkraineROME, April 17th.
/tass/. Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who is on a visit to Poland, said on Monday that his country will provide Ukraine with military, financial and humanitarian assistance as long as it is necessary.
"We will continue to support Ukraine, as long as it is necessary, in all plans: military supplies, financing, humanitarian assistance, reconstruction of the country. With the conviction that this applies not only to Ukraine, but to any country that is fighting for freedom," ANSA news agency quotes him from a press conference in Warsaw after talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
In March 2022, the Italian Parliament approved a resolution on providing assistance to Ukraine, including military assistance. Five interdepartmental decrees were issued with a list of weapons supplied, which is classified. The new center-right government that came to power in October earlier approved a decree extending the terms of military assistance for the whole of 2023. It was finally approved in the National Parliament. At the end of 2022, the sixth decree was approved, which, as reported by the Italian media and indirectly confirmed by the authorities, involves the supply of the SAMP-T anti-aircraft missile system. Its dispatch is carried out in agreement with France. In Ukraine, it should be received by the summer. The Ukrainian military were trained to use it at a base near Rome.
Over the weekend, a video of eyewitnesses from the railway station of the northern city of Udine spread on social networks, which shows a passing train with dozens of self-propelled artillery units (self-propelled guns). According to the Minister without portfolio (for Parliamentary Affairs) Luka Chiriani, the self-propelled guns were sent along the eastern route to Ukraine and were part of the package of military assistance approved by the previous government, which should be delivered to Kiev this week.
