Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tayyani, in an interview with Corriere della Sera “Despite positive messages, such as the release of hostages, the war in Ukraine It won’t end soon. “

“I have always been saying that war would not end before the end of the year. Putin set up a war machine. Now he must accept that the way is that of negotiation and peace ”, The head of Italian diplomacy added.

“We need to explore all roads. Working aiming at ceasefire and then a fair and lasting peace, even if they continue to fall into bombs because we are required to be realistic” Tayyani said in the Milan newspaper.

Referring to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, he stressed that his country does not consider that if he chose to withdraw its ambassador to Israel, the Netanyahu line would change and added: “We said it from the beginning and we say it more and more loudly: it arrives with uncontrolled military reactions, reaches the victims of the civilian population.”

Antonio Tayyani explained that Italy adopted this position, a friend of Israel, and with the desire “the legitimate criticism of a government would not lead to shameful, new anti -Semitism phenomena”.