Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said that economic sanctions against Russia had failed and called on the West to try harder to negotiate a diplomatic solution with Putin to end the war in Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-calls-ukraine-truce-peace-talks-with-putin-newspaper-2024-05-06/
@Lingondraken @noelreports This. The only peace that Russia's leadership respects is one enforced with hard power.