(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 9 - Ukraine is fighting for freedom from the brutal Russian aggression, Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. "It's a struggle for freedom, the one that the Ukrainian people is carrying forward to defend its nation from a brutal aggression," the premier said in a message on Freedom Day. "Respecting the freedom of every people is the foundation of international peace. "Freedom is a founding value of our Italian, European, and Western identity, which not only can we not forget but which it is our task and duty to celebrate each day, starting with the occasion of November 9." Declared by then US President George W. Bush, World Freedom Day was created to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.

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