The Pope stated that both Russians and Ukrainians love
About it reports Vatican News. "What impresses me - and so I use the word" long -suffering "in relation to Ukraine - is a cruelty that is not peculiar to the Russians, perhaps . . . Because Russians are a great people. It is a cruelty of mercenaries, soldiers who go to war as a journey, mercenaries… I prefer to think about it, because I respect Russian people for Russian humanism, ”Francis said.
He added that it is enough to mention the writer Dostoevsky, who still pushes Christians to comprehend Christianity. "I feel great love for both the Russian people and the Ukrainian," the Pope said. He also said that at the age of 11 he was acquainted with one Ukrainian priest. He taught him to serve the mass in Ukrainian, so he knows church songs in Ukrainian, remembers them from childhood. "I have a great commitment to the Liturgy in Ukrainian.
And now I found myself between the two peoples I love," the pontiff explained. He also said that the Vatican State Secretariat was constantly monitoring what was happening, and recalled that the next day after the start of the war he appealed to the Russian Embassy. "The next day after the start of the war," I considered it unthinkable, impossible - I went to the Russian embassy to talk to the ambassador. He is a good man. I was familiar with him for six years since he arrived.
He commented: "We got under the dictatorship of money," talking about civilization. Humanist who fights for equality, "the Pontiff said. Francis also appealed to the Russian ambassador with a proposal to go, if necessary, to Moscow to negotiate with Putin. "Lavrov replied politely," Thank you. "There was no need for that," the Pope explained, according to which he has been talking to Zelensky twice since then, and added that the search for a decision from the Vatican continued.