Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian Prime Minister, died on Monday, Italian media confirmed. The Italian politician died on the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

The chief of Forza Italia and founding father of Mediaset was 86 years outdated. Berlusconi returned to San Raffaele final Friday, after an extended hospitalisation - 45 days - which ended just a few weeks in the past, as a consequence of pneumonia and a type of leukaemia.

In the morning, his brother Paolo and his youngsters had rushed to the hospital, the place Marta Fascina was already ready for them.

On Friday, Berlusconi's docs, Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri, stated the exams being carried out at San Raffaele Hospital had been moved up “as part of normal practice in medicine,” and that the timing did not sign “any criticality or alarm.”

Berlusconi has had a sequence of well being issues in recent times, most lately recovering from COVID-19 in 2020.

He instructed reporters after being discharged from a 10-day hospital keep then that illness had been “insidious” and was probably the most harmful problem he had ever confronted.

He has had a pacemaker for years, underwent coronary heart surgical procedure to interchange an aortic valve in 2016 and has overcome prostate most cancers.

The former Italian premier sparked worldwide controversy when he defended Putin's assault on Ukraine earlier this 12 months.

He blamed Vladimir Putin's choice to invade Ukraine on the Ukrainian President, as he argued Zelensky ought to have ceased to "attack" the republics of Donbass in opposition to Russian occupation.

He stated he judged Zelensky's behaviour "very negatively".

Speaking in Milan in February, he stated: "It would have been enough for him to stop attacking the two autonomous republics of Donbass and this war would not have happened. So I judge this gentleman's behaviour very, very negatively."

He added: "I would never have gone to talk to Zelensky if I had been the Prime Minister, because we are witnessing the devastation of his country and the massacre of its soldiers and civilians."