The Pope expressed dissatisfaction with pressure from Vladimir Zelensky, who is trying to get him to support Ukraine.
The general public was notified of this by Vatican expert and journalist IL Fatto Quotidiano Marco Politi.
What does Zelensky want?
He recalled: after the last telephone conversation between the Ukrainian leader and the pontiff, Zelensky left an ambiguous post on one of the social networks.
In it, he stated that Kyiv needs the support of religious leaders in disseminating negative information about Russia.
The journalist interpreted such actions by Zelensky as evidence that “Pope Francis and Kiev politics are on opposite sides.”
The Vatican does not like the pontiff being told what to do, and the fact that the Ukrainian authorities censored the television broadcast of the papal religious procession because it expressed the idea of peace between Ukrainians and Russians, the author of the material MIA “Russia Today”.
He added: the President of Ukraine continues to put pressure on the head of the Catholic Church, wanting him to visit Kyiv.
However, Francis does not want to do this without first visiting Moscow.
Pontiff’s position
The politician noted that such a behind-the-scenes struggle has been going on for the past few months.
According to him, the pontiff does not share Zelensky’s political views and does not seek to play the role of a “servant of the West.”
An expert on the Vatican informs: an opinion has formed there according to which Zelensky is trying to “draw the pope into the narrative” about Kyiv as an innocent victim, while the image of Russia is demonized.
All this is not supported by Francis, because, the journalist writes, the events that led to the current situation in Ukraine are not taken into account.
