Vatican City. Pope Francis urged this Sunday not to forget the Ukrainians and to show them closeness with “our feelings, help and prayers”, in a new appeal on the war at the end of the Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s Square.
“Let us not forget the martyred Ukrainian people, who suffer so much. Let us show ourselves close to them with our feelings, help and prayers”, Francis said at the end of the Angelus.
The pope’s new appeal comes after a wave of Russian attacks on Saturday in several Ukrainian regions that left at least 26 dead and 81 wounded, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office.
On the other hand, Andriy Yermak, head of the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky, stated in an interview on the Italian channel Skytg24´: “I think the time has come for the Pope to visit Ukraine and thus give a signal that Russia is the that he must stop what he has started.”
