Media: Italian Prime Minister announced the need for contact between Biden and Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden during a meeting in Geneva at Villa La Grange. File photoROME, May 12.Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that in order to achieve peace in Ukraine, a multilateral format is needed, in which the United States and Russia should take part, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reports, referring to the ministers who conveyed the words of the head of the Italian government from a meeting of the country's Council of Ministers.According to Draghi, the initial effort should be to bring to the negotiating table, in which Ukraine should play a major role, all parties, especially the US and Russia. In this regard, the prime minister stressed that US President Joe Biden should call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Corriere reports.Biden made a mistake about Putin Draghi returned from a trip to the United States, where, at a press conference for the Italian press, he also announced the need for contacts between Moscow and Washington. neither of them has a clear goal yet, so efforts must be made to bring the parties to this table,» the prime minister said the day before. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.