European Union diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said that Pope Francis, with his calls for talks on Ukraine and a ceasefire, had “walked into a garden to which no one called him”.
“His Holiness, the Pope has entered a garden to which no one called him… But to call on Ukraine to surrender is more than a wish for peace. I believe that this is not the moment to invite Ukraine to surrender. On the contrary, this is the moment when it is necessary to continue helping,” Josep Borrell said in an interview with Spanish radio station RNE.
On 9 March, Pope Francis urged Ukraine to enter peace talks with Russia. The pontiff said in an interview with the RSI TV company that Kiev should find “the courage to raise the white flag” and admit defeat in the conflict.
We shall remind you that earlier the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitriy Medvedev, said that the Russian special military operation was aimed at “dislodging the Kiev authorities”, who profess “the ideology of neo-Nazism”, and completely disarming the Ukrainian Armed Forces.