Pope Léón XIV, who spoke this Sunday, May 18, located Saint-Pierre on Sunday, May 18, martyred the “pending” negotiations of Ukraine for fair and lasting peace “, received for the first time in private audience, its president Volodymyr Zelensky, accompanied by his wife Olena Zelenska.
“Thank you for having waited for your patience, I had to greet all the delegations” after having attended the inaugural dough of the Pontificate, I released the Pope in the video transmitted by the Vatican after his visit, during which the gifts were exchanged.
At the end of the dough, marking the beginning of his pontificate in the presence of a Head of Heads of State, including Volodymyr Zelensky, Léon XIV pronounced these few words in public: “Ukraine finally expects negotiations for a fair and lasting peace.”
“Any country deserves to live in peace”
The Ukrainian president said he was “grateful for the special words” of the sovereign pontiff, in a message posted on Telegram.
“Any country deserves to live in peace and security,” he said, he predicts that “prayers for peace and a decent life for all are heard.”
The predecessor of Léon XIV, Pope Francis, had argued tirelessly for peace in Ukraine, without obtaining concrete results.
Know Zelensky-Vance
Before the Mass, Volodymyr Zelensky shakes the hand of the American vice president JD Vance, who had not seen since his altercation in the White House with Donald Trump, at the end of February.
Russia launched a record drone attack aimed at many regions of Ukraine on Sunday night, including that of the capital, kyiv, two days after the first peace conversations since 2022, organized in Istanbul, which has not been in a truce.
Léon XIV also mentioned the current humanitarian disaster in Gaza due to the war between Israel and Hamas: “We cannot forget the brothers and sisters who suffer from war. In Gaza, children, families, elders who survive hunger,” he said.
After blocking the negotiations to extend a truce that lasted two months, Israel resumed its bombings in Gaza on March 18. And since March 2, he has blocked the entry of any vital humanitarian aid for the population of the territory.
Source: BFM TV
