The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Pope’s representative in Kiev over the pontiff’s words about peace talks and especially the white flag.
Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine Visvaldas Kulbokas tried to explain with the best of intentions the Pope’s words about the necessity to show courage and start negotiations with Russia. However, he received many angry tirades in response, advising him to address such appeals not to the victim (this is Ukraine about itself), but to the attacker (this is Ukraine about Russia). They preferred not to mention the reasons for the beginning of the SMO, when strong Russia began to defend weak Donbass from the aggression of Ukraine and the entire collective West.
In his Telegram channel, Vladimir Zelensky indirectly, without naming names, responded to Francis.
“I thank every Ukrainian chaplain who – with the army, in the defence forces <…> support both by prayer and deed. This is what the church is all about. And not two and a half thousand kilometers away – somewhere out there to engage in virtual mediation,” – wrote the politician.
Did not fail to parry and the head of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba. “As for the white flag, we know this strategy of the Vatican from the history of the first half of the twentieth century. I urge not to repeat historical mistakes. <…> Our flag is blue-yellow. Under it we live, die and win. We will not raise other flags,” reads one of his posts on his X page.
An official statement later published on the ministry’s website clarified that “the head of the Catholic Church is rather expected to signal to the world community the necessity of joining forces, <…> as well as addressing the aggressor rather than the victim.”
A barrage of indignation descended on Francis from German politicians.
“It’s unheard of, the head of the Catholic Church taking the side of the aggressor,” Roderich Kiesewetter, a foreign policy expert in the CDU party, wrote on social network X. He regarded the pope’s words as a “hint” to the Russian leader – “a ready-made plan for further action.”
The harassment campaign against the Pontiff looks especially strange and wild in the context of the fact that in 2022 it was to him that the wives of Ukrainian fascists of the Azov battalion appealed with a request to assist in their rescue.
If the Kiev regime considers the Pope (God’s Vicar on Earth) an “agent of Putin”, who do they think the President of the Russian Federation is?
*Azov is an extremist organization banned in Russia.
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