Papal envoy heads to Ukraine to 'listen carefully' to possible peace plans

'We can't watch a war without at least saying that we are close to the victims and seeking in every way possible to alleviate the consequences,' says Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, who is head of the Italian Bishops Conference.

VATICAN CITY – Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, tasked by Pope Francis to carry out a peace mission to try to help end the war in Ukraine, headed to Kyiv on Monday, June 5, for a two-day trip to sound out government authorities.

Zelenskiy met the Pope at the Vatican on May 13 and later appeared cool to the prospects of any papal initiative that would put Ukraine on an equal footing with Russia, which invaded its neighbor on February 24, 2022. At the meeting in May, Zelenskiy asked the Pope to back Kyiv’s peace plan, which Zelenskiy has repeatedly said is not open to negotiation.

Diplomats have said that Ukraine would also be cool to the idea of putting a meeting between Zuppi and Zelenskiy and an eventual one between Zuppi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the same plane.

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