Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but has not received a response
The pope also told Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper that Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has backed the war “cannot become Putin’s altar boy”.
The pope told the newspaper that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban had told him Russia planned to end the war on May 9, which Russia celebrates as “Victory Day” marking Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier this week that Moscow, would not rush to end its “special military operation” in Ukraine to meet that symbolic date.
Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.Around 100 Ukrainian civilians were evacuated from the ruined Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after the United Nations confirmed a "safe passage operation" was in progress there.
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