Ukraine president issues response after comments from pope as foreign minister says only flag country will raise is ‘yellow and blue’
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on Sunday dismissed Pope Francis’s call for talks with Russia as “virtual mediation” from a distance.
In an interview broadcast on Saturday by Swiss television, but which the Vatican said was conducted in February, the pontiff urged parties in Russia’s war against Ukraine to “have the courage to negotiate”, and do so “before things get worse”.
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