| Title: | Fact Check: Italian PM Meloni Did NOT Say ‘If Russia Does Not Agree To The Terms Of The Peace Summit, We Will Force It To Surrender’ | Lead Stories |
| URL: | https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2024/06/fact-check-italian-pm-giorgia-meloni-did-not-say-if-russia-does-not-agree-to-the-terms-of-the-peace-summit-we-will-force-it-to-surrender.html |
| Publisher: | Lead Stories |
| Date published: | June 17, 2024 |
| Description: | Did Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni say, “If Russia does not agree to the terms of the peace summit, we will force it to surrender”? No, that’s not true: The comments attributed to her come from a falsified Russian translation of what she said in English at the Ukraine Peace Summit held in Switzerland in June 2024. While Meloni has strongly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, no credible sources report her saying that Russia should be forced to surrender. |
Did Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni say, “If Russia does not agree to the terms of the peace summit, we will force it to surrender”? No, that’s not true: The comments attributed to her come from a falsified Russian translation of what she said in English at the Ukraine Peace Summit held in Switzerland in June 2024. While Meloni has strongly criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, no credible sources report her saying that Russia should be forced to surrender.
