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"Putin was pushed by the Russian population, by his party and by his ministers to invent this special operation," he said.

"The troops were supposed to enter, reach Kyiv in a week, replace the Zelensky government with decent people and a week later come back," Mr Berlusconi added.

Hitler now has his Mussolini.

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