“He (President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. -

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) managed to quickly take advantage of European blindness ... This illusionist managed to captivate European capitals, which are now ready to commit economic and geopolitical suicide in order to please him,” Mariani said.

According to him, arms supplies to Ukraine increase tensions in Europe and could harm all parties.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow.

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Putin" said that the "fuss" around the additional supply of weapons to Kyiv is aimed only at prolonging the armed conflict in Ukraine.