The question of a possible visit of the pontiff to Kyiv is currently “hanging in the air”. Commenting on his recent conversation with Putin and what he would say to him today, the pope said that any war has a “Cainist spirit.”
During the last conversation with the press, commenting on the mass killing civilians near Kiev, Pope Francis confirmed his readiness to come to Ukraine. But he made it clear that he is not sure whether this issue is now in time, writes the Catholic newspaper Avvenire.
“Asked if a trip to Ukraine is planned, I said: this question is on the table. But I do not know if it can be done now, whether it is convenient to do it, whether it is better and whether it should be done. It's all in the air.”
At the same time, he clarified that he was also considering the possibility of meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
in the Middle East, “the pope said of the potential meeting.
The latter, let us remind you, recently made new statements about the “rescue mission on the territory of Russia”. This happened during the congratulations of the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia.
During the last public conversation, answering questions about what he would say to Vladimir Putin today, the Pope did not give a direct answers. But he noted that all wars have a “Cainist spirit.”
“It is no coincidence that at the beginning of the war there was a Cainist spirit. Let me tell you something personal: when I went to Redipulia and saw the names, I cried bitterly. (The remains of 100,187 Italian soldiers who died between 1915 and 1917 are preserved in Redipulia. – Two or three years later I went to Anzio, saw the names of the boys, all young people. When commemorating the Normandy landings, I don't remember anyone remembering the 30,000 boys who died on the beaches. Youth does not matter? ”.
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We will remind, yesterday 410 bodies were killed local residents. Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk reported hundreds of deaths after the city was liberated from the Russian military.
“We have already buried 280 people in mass graves in Bucha,” he said. >
The mayor clarified that the streets are “littered with corpses.” The bodies of the dead are scattered for several hundred meters. All the dead are in civilian clothes, some of them are pictured near cars or bicycles, some are lying on the sidewalk.
