Silvio Berlusconi has sparked fury by claiming Vladimir was 'pushed' into invading Ukraine and only wants to put 'decent people' in charge of .The Italian leader and former PM, whose Forza Italia party belongs to a right-wing coalition expected to win the general election on Sunday, is a long-time friend of Putin and his comments are likely to alarm Western allies.'Putin was pushed by the Russian people, by his party, by his ministers to come up with this special operation,' Berlusconi told Italian public television RAI late on Thursday, using the official Russian wording for the war.
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