The Vatican is preparing a meeting of Pope Francis with the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, which will take place this Saturday, according to Vatican sources.
At the moment there are no official confirmations about the time and place where the appointment will be held, which one it would happen a couple of weeks later that the pontiff also received the prime minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, in the Holy See.
In the last weeks, the Vatican has mobilized more on the Ukrainian conflictespecially after his secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, assured that the mission to stop the war in Ukraine announced by Pope Francis “will go ahead” and revealed that “there is news”, but of a “confidential nature”.
Regarding the “denials” of Kyiv and Moscow after the pope’s announcement of the existence of the mission, Paolin specified: “They have not been deniedThey said they didn’t know anything, but then there were contacts where it was clarified by both parties that it was a misunderstanding.”
Willing
Earlier the Pope, on the return flight from his recent trip to Budapest, had stated: “I am willing to do whatever needs to be done (for peace in Ukraine). Also, there is now a research going on, but it’s not public yet. Let’s see how… When it’s public, I’ll tell.”
For its part, the press office of the Holy See explained that during the meetings that the Ukrainian premier held in the Vatican “the various war-related problems in Ukraine, paying particular attention to the humanitarian aspect and to efforts to restore peace”.
After that meeting, Shmyhal explained in a press conference that he and Francis discussed the peace plan indicated by President Volodimir Zelenski and “the possible steps the Vatican could take to help achieve peace”.
“I have asked for assistance from the Vatican and the Pope for the return of children forcibly taken from Russia and I also invited the Pope to visit Ukraine,” he said at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome.
President Zelensky has also invited the Pope to visit the country, but Francis has always replied that he will do so when he can also go to Moscow.
Source: Clarin
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