The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, spoke today about the war between Russia and Ukraine at the University of Nairobi, in Kenya. The head of the Quirinal will leave today for Italy after a three-day State visit (March 13-16), on the occasion of his fifth mission to sub-Saharan Africa.

"The brutal aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is setting international relations back eighty years, as if there has not been, in that span of time, an admirable progress in the field of independence, freedom and democracy, growth civil society of many Nations", declared the President of the Italian Republic.

"We grew up in interdependence -added Mattarella in front of the students- among our destinies and the consequences of the acts of the Russian Federation are very serious on food security, on the energy security of many countries, on peace, even on the African continent, and in the Middle Orient".