Putin "has lost control of an increasingly bankrupt state. It would be unthinkable anywhere to see mercenary groups declare their intention to march on the capital and not be immediately stopped. It looks like post-Gaddafi Libya. And it provides proof to the international court." This is what Giovanbattista Fazzolari, the undersecretary of government of Giorgia Meloni's party, told Corriere della Sera in an interview. "Now," he explained, "Putin's men claim that Wagner, one of the many mercenary formations used, is a criminal organization that disregards military hierarchies, the laws of war, and civilians." Therefore, Russia "is not merely a state that has invaded another; it also employs criminal gangs that are permitted to disregard the law. Which implies torture, rape, child deportation. Also devastating for Russian soldiers" And now, Fazzolari explained, "either the United Nations succeeds in enforcing international law, or it demonstrates its ineffectiveness and opens the door to a global war: we've been here before with the League of Nations. Regarding our part, the Ukraine must be supported with even greater determination against this barbarism."