He said this on the TV channel Rai News 24.
“I received one of the many life-threatening threats that I receive daily. The security services identified a group of Ukrainians who were plotting an assassination, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Salvini said that after that, law enforcement officers discovered an arsenal of military weapons in northern Italy, including an air-to-air missile.
Also, the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy said that “he does not think that he did something bad to the Ukrainians, and he is not familiar with any neo-Nazis.”
The agency, referring to the information spread earlier, specifies that the arsenal of weapons belonged to a group of right-wing extremists who were in contact with mercenaries fighting in south-eastern Ukraine.
In May, Salvini announced the need to lift the sanctions imposed against Russia.