Pope Francis met this Saturday with the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican, Andrei Yurash, while the Holy See works on a possible visit of the pontiff to kyiv.
Francisco received Yurash at the Vatican Apostolic Palace in the second bilateral meeting they have held since the diplomatic representative presented his credentials at the end of March, Vatican sources told Télam.
The meeting takes place two weeks after the Pope stated that he maintains his “desire” to go to kyiv, although he knows that it is a “complicated” trip in which the Holy See “is working”, as he said at the end of July to journalists who accompanied him on his tour to Canada.
Francis has confirmed for the moment a visit to Kazakhstan from September 13 to 15 to participate in an interreligious meetingon a trip with which he could fly over Ukraine on the 6 and a half hour flight that he will make to travel the 5,262 kilometers that separate Rome from the capital Nur-Sultan.
