Italy is strengthening its cyber security defenses, said the government today. This is a move that comes in response to the alarm launched by European intelligence agencies according to which Russia, as revealed by the economic newspaper "Financial Times", is preparing "violent acts of sabotage" throughout the Old Continent, without worrying about possible civilian casualties.

"I'm thinking more of cyber attacks". "Certainly the international situation is very complicated" but "we are strengthening our defenses, we have built a wall to protect our data and sites and we always react with great promptness", explained the Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, interviewed by the program television "Mattino Cinque".

The vice-president of the Council of Ministers revealed that "we have already suffered cyber attacks: the day the Ukrainian president landed at Ciampino airport, I was there waiting for him, while Volodymyr Zelensky's plane put its wheels on the runway and took off cyber attack on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs". "But there are continuous attacks that are promptly repelled, because we have taken the necessary countermeasures".