Western leaders have any number of reasons to be upset with francis’s response to the war The pope has said russia’s invasion of ukraine was partly “provoked” by nato but denied he is backing president putin.he condemned the “ferocity and cruelty of In addition to criticizing the west’s efforts to arm ukraine, he has implied that nato deserves.
Rome — pope francis said that nato “barking” at russia’s door may have led to vladimir putin’s invasion of ukraine — and said he has offered to meet the russian president in moscow. Pope leo xiv is insisting that europe must have a role in any ukraine peace deal The pope, who ultimately never succeeded in meeting putin or speaking with him, still met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky twice between the start of the war and his death.
