Pope Francis on Wednesday asked the world to do so “avoid the risk of a nuclear disaster” in Ukraine and reiterated that the “war is crazy” six months after the start of the Russian invasion of that country.
“I renew my invitation to implore the peace of the Lord for the beloved Ukrainian people, who for six months have suffered the horror of war,” Francis said during the traditional Wednesday general audience in the Vatican.
In his message he urged “that concrete measures are taken to end the war and avoid the risk of a nuclear disaster in Zaporizhia, “he shouted.
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“I think of so much cruelty, of so many innocents who pay for madnessthe madness of all sides, because war is madness, “he said.
Several countries have expressed their fears about the possibility of a disaster at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, occupied since the beginning of March by the Russian army and the target of recurrent bombings.
“I think of the poor girl who detonated a bomb under the seat of a car in Moscow. The innocent pay for the war, the innocent!”, the pope lamented referring to the death of Daria Duguina29-year-old journalist and political scientist, daughter of the considered ideologue of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Dugin.
Dugin created and developed geopolitical concepts that provided ideological support to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin’s justifications for the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine this year.
The Pope, tough on those who profit from the war
The pope also drew attention to the tragedies left by the war and once again condemned the arms traffickers.
“I think of the children. So many deaths and so many refugees. Many injured. Many Ukrainian and Russian children have been orphaned. Orphans have no nationality: they have lost a father or a mother, “she said.
“Those who profit from war (…) are criminals who kill to humanity “, underlined the pope, who on several occasions condemned the so-called” third world war in pieces “referring to the many conflicts, and in particular to Syria and Yemen.
“More than ten years ago Syria; or Yemen, with so many children suffering from hunger; or the rohingyawho travel the world because of the injustice of being expelled from their land “, he explained, referring to the Muslim ethnic group expelled from Myanmar and who mainly take refuge in Bangladesh.
“Today in particular, six months after the start of the war, let’s think of Ukraine and Russia“, the Pope added, before asking Our Lady to” bring peace “to the two countries.
“We need peace”, he concluded in that framework.
Source: AFP
Source: Clarin
