By Angelo Amante and Alvise Armellini

ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday providing more aid to Ukraine would not help end the war with Russia and could “fuel further corruption”, referring to a graft scandal that has rocked the government in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers this week following a probe into an alleged $100 million energy graft scheme, as the country grapples with Russian advances on the battlefield.

“It seems to me that corruption scandals are emerging, involving the Ukrainian government, so I would not want the money of Italian workers and pensioners to be used to fuel further corruption,” Salvini said in comments reported by ANSA news agency but criticised by Italy’s

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