VATICAN CITY — The Vatican acted to fix strained relations with Ukraine on Tuesday after Pope Francis upset Kyiv by referring to Russian ultra-nationalist Darya Dugina, who was killed by a automotive bomb close to Moscow, as an harmless sufferer of battle.
Final week, Ukrainian Overseas Minister Dmytro Kuleba summoned the Vatican’s ambassador in Kyiv to protest, saying the pope’s phrases have been “unfair” and had “damaged Ukraine’s coronary heart”.
That transfer adopted sharp criticism of the pope by Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican, Andrii Yurash.
Francis sparked the controversy final Wednesday whereas talking off script at his weekly normal viewers on the day Ukraine marked its independence from Soviet …
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