After two nights of looting in central Milan, the government held its extraordinary security cabinet. Morning editions detailed 500 soldiers with police powers for the city and 24-hour preventive detention for minors, while Mayor Sala warned repression alone would not suffice and judges confirmed jail for four adults and validated 11 minors' arrests. Crosetto described the clashes as Russian hybrid warfare. In the afternoon the draft was scaled back after Quirinale objections, dropping military police powers, and in the evening the cabinet approved the decree creating the crime of violent participation and extending preventive detention to minors. Meloni said demonstrating is a right, devastating is not, and those who break will pay.

On Ukraine, Zelensky told Corriere that U.S. restrictions on weapons were real and unjust and Italy was also a hybrid-war victim, as he met Witkoff in Oslo before the envoy's planned meeting with Putin.