Italy slams 'odious' threats by Russia over Ukraine sanctions

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ROME - Italy reacted furiously on Saturday to"odious and unacceptable" insults and threats by a senior Russian foreign ministry official attacking sanctions applied against Alexey Paramonov, head o

ROME - Italy reacted furiously on Saturday to"odious and unacceptable" insults and threats by a senior Russian foreign ministry official attacking sanctions applied against

Alexey Paramonov, head of the Russian foreign ministry's European department, accused Italy of falling victim to"anti-Russian hysteria", in comments to the state-run RIA Novosti agency.He said he hoped French finance minister Bruno Le Maire's vow earlier this month to"wage a total economic and financial war on Russia" would not"find followers in Italy and cause a series of appropriate irreversible consequences".

Guerini was now one of the main"hawks and instigators of the anti-Russian campaign" within the government in Rome, he said.Rome and its partners would"continue to exert every pressure" to stop the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, it added.

 

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