Uncertainty and controversy continued
on Monday after League leader Matteo Salvini's said he might
take a trip to Moscow in an attempt to make a breakthrough that
could lead to an end to the war in Ukraine.
Salvini has come under heavy fire over the mooted peace mission,
including from other parts of the centre-right alliance the
League belongs to.
On Monday Forza Italia MP Elio Vito, a member of the Copasir
parliamentary committee that oversees Italy's intelligence
services, said he had filed a question in parliament to Premier
Mario Draghi and Foreign Minster Luigi Di Maio over reports that
the plan was recommended by a lawyer who has done work for the
Russian embassy.
"Contacts and negotiations with foreign embassies... can
compromise our country's diplomatic and institutional relations
and, therefore, also our national security," Vito said.
On Sunday the new head of Italian bishops conference CEI, Matteo
Zuppi, seemed to indirectly criticise the mooted visit, saying
there was a risk of doing things "just to show that one is doing
something".
Salvini expressed admiration for Russian President Vladimir
Putin on several occasions before the war in Ukraine.
The League leader has condemned Moscow's invasion of its
neighbour.
He has also said he is not in favour of Italy sending any more
weapons to Kyiv on top of the ones it has already supplied.
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