Pope Francis emphasized the importance of protecting “innocent victims of the conflict” in Ukraine in a private meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Vatican on Saturday, the Vatican said in a news release.
Recently, the pope appeared to cast himself in the role of peacemaker. He told reporters in late April that there was “a mission going on now” to reach a peace deal, “but it is not public yet,” adding, “when it is public I will talk about it.”
Some analysts question whether there is a viable mediator role for the Vatican in a part of the world dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church.And although the pope has sharpened his rhetoric during the course of the war, Ukrainians have at times accused Francis of creating false equivalencies.in the first months after the invasion for not calling out Putin as the aggressor, while criticizing Western sanctions and defense spending.
“The pope believes that this is no longer a Russian-Ukrainian war,” he added, but rather “a hybrid war between NATO and Russia — while of course keeping in mind that Putin is responsible.”
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