Italians in EP vote agst arms in Russia but PD, FI split

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 19 - Italian MEPs voted largely against a European Parliament motion that lifted restraints on Ukraine using western-sent arms in Russia but the centre-left Democratic Parrty (PD) and the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party membets were split on the issue.
    Italian MEPs essentially voted against the EU Parliament resolution that "calls on Member States to immediately lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons delivered to Ukraine against legitimate military targets on Russian soil".
    However, there were sharp divisions in Elly Schlein's PD and the post Berlusconi FI.
    The delegations of the rightwing League and Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) were unanimously against the motion, as were, on the left, the leftwing populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the Green-Left Alliance (AVS).
    (ANSA).