Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian prime minister and friend of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, was admitted to intensive care in a hospital's cardiology department on Wednesday due to 'shortness of breath', Italian media reported..

A few days ago, on March 30, the 86-year-old politician was discharged from the San Rafaele hospital in Milan after an examination, possibly related to heart problems.. The first time he was hospitalized on March 27.

The leader of Forza Italia, the coalition party of the right-wing Georgia government, Maloney, is said to be in stable condition..

" He was hospitalized because the previous problem had not been resolved,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani commented on Wednesday on the sidelines of a NATO meeting..

During the pandemic, Berlusconi suffered serious complications from contracting COVID-19, which he described as the "

In February, Berlusconi once again got into a scandal over statements about the war in Ukraine..

He accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of allegedly " In his opinion, if this had stopped, Russia would not have attacked Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

The Prime Minister of Italy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reacted to the politician's statement.