OREANDA-NEWS The Italian Nova news agency fired its reporter after he recalled at a European Commission briefing the European Union's calls for Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine and asked if Israel should finance the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in this case, Politico newspaper reported, citing the dismissed journalist.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed in September to allocate a new loan to Ukraine at the expense of frozen Russian assets. According to her, Ukraine will repay the loan only if Russia pays "reparations." At the same time, there is no consensus on this loan in the European Union. In October, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the EU's ideas about Russia paying reparations to the Ukrainian side were divorced from reality, and Brussels had been stealing Russian assets for a long time. She also stated that Moscow would give a guaranteed and very painful response in case of confiscation of her frozen assets.

Nova news agency fired Italian reporter Gabriele Nunziati after he asked the (European) Commission whether Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, drawing a parallel with the EU's calls for Russia to finance the reconstruction of Ukraine.