Pope Francis this Sunday compared the people desperate to flee to Ukraine due to the barbarism of the war launched by Russia, to individuals who had to leave their country because of another type of crisis that he did not detail. The comment was made by the Argentine pontiff with a tweet in which he marked the similarities that caught the attention of observers as it seemed to relativize the relevance of the Ukrainian tragedy.

“Thousands of people were forced to flee Ukraine because of the war, but many were also forced to leave their homeland in Asia, Africa and America. My thoughts and prayers are with all of them, “the words Pope Francis posted on his Twitter account.

Pope Francis was questioned because from the very beginning of the war he had already made comments calling for peace, but he never once quoted Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin as ordering an invasion of the neighboring country, or Russia.

In these times of returning from his visit to Malta, the Pope assured that the Holy See is doing everything possible to stop the war in Ukraine and, among other things, there possibility of your trip to kyiv. But at the same time, he clarified that it may not be convenient to do soas he said at a brief press conference while flying back to Rome.

“The whole diplomatic part of the Vatican is doing everything possible, and not all actions can be published with caution. But we are at the limit of what is possible and among these possibilities is the trip to kyiv” , after the invitation of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski.

“Availability always exists. I said yes, it’s on the table, but I don’t know if it can be done and if it’s comfortable to do or if it’s not convenient to do it or I should do it. It’s all up in the air,” he said. niya.

Francisco advanced that what was being done was a possible meeting with Russian Patriarch Kiril, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and could take place in the Middle East, after the two religious leaders spoke a few days ago. Patriarch Kirill maintains a position of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Silence to Putin

Papa diverted the question of what he would say to Putin, and explained that in his rounds of talks he had talked to Kiril, along with Zelenski on two occasions and that he had approached the Russian embassy in the Holy See to “talk to the ambassador who is the representative of the people. ” And he taught that his messages are the same for everyone and that “he doesn’t use double language.”

When asked about finding hundreds corpses of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Buchaafter the liberation of the city from Russian troops, the pontiff he was not informed and he found out about the tragedy because the journalists who accompanied him on the trip were telling him about it.

In addition, he recalled reporters who were killed in this war and that “they worked for the common good.”

The Pope again condemned the war and lamented that after World War II there was a movement for peace and even for nuclear disarmament, but that “70 years later we have forgotten everything.”

He made sure that there was a “spirit of Cain” that thought only “of the scheme of war” and that one never thought of the “scheme of peace.” “We are stubborn. We are in love with wars,” he emphasized.

“I’m so hurt by what’s happening. We’re not learning. The Lord have mercy on us. We’re all at fault,” he concluded. He again avoided citing Putin that five weeks ago mobilized the massive army that had accumulated on the Ukrainian borders, to carry out an unprecedented military invasion of Europe in the last three decades.