The Pope asks for peace for Ukraine, which suffers the cruelty of mercenaries
Pope Francis called for peace in Ukraine and for Ukrainians, who he said “suffer the cruelty of mercenaries who wage war,” during a general audience in St. Peter’s Square. “I ask the Lord for prayers for peace, for these people so devastated, who suffer so much cruelty from the mercenaries who wage war,” the pope said in his final greeting in Italian. During today’s audience, the Argentine pontiff also referred “to the madness of war of which the martyred Ukraine is a victim, and in so many other conflicts, which will never be resolved through the childish logic of arms, but only with the meek force of dialogue”. On the return flight from his trip to Bahrain, the Pope also referred to those who are attacking Ukraine as “mercenaries.” “Cruelty, which is not from the Russian people, because the Russian people are a great people, they are mercenaries, soldiers who go to war as an adventure, mercenaries… I prefer to think that way because I have great appreciation for the Russian people, for humanism Russian,” he said.