Ukrainian and allied officials Sunday criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the 'courage' to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call for Ukraine to surrender.
Ukrainian and allied officials Sunday criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the "courage" to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call for Ukraine to surrender.
In his tweet, Kuleba urged the Holy See to "not repeat historical mistakes" as he alleged that the Vatican didn't do enough to resist Nazi Germany. Yet he also invited Francis to Ukraine, saying the pope's visit would show support for the "more than a million Ukrainian Catholics, more than five million Greek Catholics, all Christians and all Ukrainians."
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni on Saturday clarified that the pope supported "a stop to hostilities a truce achieved with the courage of negotiations," rather than an outright Ukrainian surrender. Bruni said that the journalist interviewing Francis used the term "white flag" in the question that prompted the controversial remarks.
"Let the hostilities which cause immense suffering among the civilian population cease as soon as possible," he said. In Myrnohrad, another eastern Ukrainian town, 11 civilians were wounded after Russian missiles overnight struck residential buildings, the local prosecutor's office reported. It also posted photos of rubble lining the courtyard outside a high-rise apartment building, its windows blown out, and of cars parked outside that appeared reduced to piles of twisted metal.
Earlier on Sunday, Russian media reported on a fire at an aircraft hangar near the main airport in St Petersburg, just kilometers from the Leningrad region, without specifying what caused it. According to the reports, two people were hospitalized with burns, and flights were briefly diverted away from the airport, Pulkovo.
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