The Vatican said on Monday it was ready to "facilitate dialogue" between Russia and Ukraine to end the war, and called for an immediate stop to the "military attack."
A child sits on a swing in front of a damaged residential building after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday, February 25, 2022. REUTERS
Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who ranks second only to the pope in the Vatican hierarchy, told Italian newspapers that "despite the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine" he was "convinced there is always room for negotiations." Parolin, the Vatican's top diplomat, said that dialogue was the only "reasonable and constructive" way to work out differences.
He suggested that this is what Pope Francis told the Russian ambassador when he made a surprise visit to the Russian embassy to the Vatican on Friday, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol.
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