🇮🇹🇺🇦 WOW! WHAT A SPEECH! WHAT POWERFUL WORDS FROM ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIORGIA MELONI! Here is the full five-minute excerpt of her speech devoted to Ukraine and Donald Trump. “Russia has launched a new autumn campaign against Ukraine. Unable to advance on the battlefield, Moscow has increasingly turned its attacks against civilians: power plants, residential buildings, hospitals, and even buses carrying people to work, as in the horrific massacre in Kramatorsk. This is a strategy through which Russia seeks to subjugate Ukraine with terror, cold, and darkness, simply because it has failed to conquer it on the battlefield. The facts contradict Kremlin propaganda and those who spread it here. Since the beginning of the year, Russia has captured very little territory, and in September it lost much of what it had previously seized. This halt did not happen by chance. It was achieved through Ukraine’s courage and Western support, including that of Italy. This resistance is the only effective instrument for bringing Russia to the negotiating table. I respect and understand the passionate debate on this issue, including within this chamber, because nobody here wants war. We all want peace. The difference lies in how we intend to achieve it. As I see it, supporting Ukraine is not an alternative to peace. It is what makes peace possible. Because if an aggressor expects its opponent to surrender, why would it negotiate? Surrender is not peace. It is conquest. If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, as many suggest, we would not have peace. We would be discussing the occupation of a European nation and the return of Soviet imperialism. Personally, I do not miss those times. I do not miss Russian tanks crushing uprisings in Prague and Budapest. I do not miss the Berlin Wall. And nobody will ever convince me that the surrender of those defending their freedom can be called ‘peace.’ The peace we want, and the peace we are working toward, even at the cost of concessions, is a just peace, because only a just peace can endure. Only a just peace can protect Europe and our interests. That is why our government's position remains unchanged: support for Ukraine, with particular attention to civilians, pressure on Moscow, and Euro-Atlantic unity remain the pillars of our actions. In this context, we must address Donald Trump's diesel agreement with Russia. This is a decision I consider extremely risky. Of course, we all recognize the need to contain fuel prices, which place a heavy burden on families, including Italian families. But we must understand that rising prices are primarily linked to the war in Iran, not Ukraine. Legitimizing Moscow, whose bombs continue to fall on Ukrainian cities, providing new revenues to finance the war, and weakening sanctions are all factors we cannot ignore. And they contradict everything Western nations, including the United States, have done to force Putin to the negotiating table. An energy ceasefire is a different matter, one that Italy supports, and we are grateful to President Zelenskyy for Ukraine's immediate willingness to agree to it. Now we expect Russia to stop attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Finally, at such a difficult moment, when so many variables are beyond our control, there is at least one thing that depends on us: We must ensure that Europe does not simply stand by and watch, because the terms of peace will affect our continent and our security.” — Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy

“We are thinking about where to bury them all — the Ukrainians!” This chilling statement, made live on Russian television by Vladimir Putin’s chief propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, was quoted by Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Andriy Melnyk, during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on October 9, 2026. According to Ambassador Melnyk, this barbaric declaration exposes Putin’s true objective: “the ultimate extermination of the Ukrainian nation.” Melnyk drew a disturbing historical parallel with Nazi Germany, warning that Putin’s publicly proclaimed objective bears an ominous resemblance to the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” (Endlösung) — the euphemism Hitler’s regime used for its plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people. Ukraine’s ambassador quoted Solovyov’s statement: “To those still remaining in Kyiv, I repeat for the hundredth time: leave the city. You are doomed. The same applies to the residents of Odesa and Mykolaiv. You've had your laughs — now it's over. And when we are asked whether we should be concerned about the fate of the people living in these cities, my answer is yes, we should. We are thinking about where to bury them all.” Melnyk continued: “The Russians are thinking about where to bury us — Ukrainians. Every single one of us. Just consider these bloodcurdling threats.” The ambassador stressed that these were not literary metaphors or rhetorical exaggerations. “We are hearing absolutely explicit, savage calls for the mass extermination of all Ukrainians, with proposals to bury their bodies — or perhaps even burn them.” Melnyk also reminded Security Council members that senior Russian officials have repeatedly described Ukrainians as “cancerous tumors,” “rabid dogs,” “cockroaches,” “lice,” and “parasites” that Russia must “disinfect.” He then cited another horrifying statement attributed to Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council: “They — the Ukrainians — must be destroyed. That's all.” These statements, Melnyk argued, reveal the true nature of Russia’s war against Ukraine. This is not merely about territory. It is about the existence of the Ukrainian nation itself. One can only hope that those members of the UN Security Council who still naively believe Putin simply wants the remaining territory of Donetsk Oblast — and that peace will somehow follow — have finally begun to understand what Ukraine is facing. When Russian officials and propagandists openly discuss the destruction of an entire nation, the world cannot afford to dismiss their words as empty rhetoric. 🇺🇦