Vladimir Putin says he has never made a mistake because God wanted him to be perfect

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UK Independent:

In a rare newspaper interview ahead of his state visit to Italy, Vladimir Putin has claimed he never makes mistakes because God “built his life so he’d have nothing to regret”.

 

The Russian president was due to meet Italy’s Matteo Renzi at the Expo 2015 world fair in Milan on Wednesday, where he is expected to discuss the prospect of easing economic sanctions imposed by the West over the Ukraine crisis.

 

Renzi was among the G7 leaders who pledged at the group’s Bavaria summit to step up restrictions on Russian trade if violence in the contested Donbass region continues.

 

But Mr Putin is nothing if not confident. Speaking to the editor in chief of Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Luciano Fontana, he warned that it was “in the interests of the Italian people… to maintain friendly relations with Russia”.