Ukraine is not aware of any Vatican mediation for a settlement of the war with Russia, a mediation the Pope mentioned yesterday on the flight that took him back to Rome after his trip to Hungary. A source close to the Ukrainian Presidency told CNN that “President Zelenskyy has not given his consent to a discussion of this nature on behalf of Ukraine: if talks are ongoing, they are taking place without our knowledge and without our blessing.”
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“I am ready to do whatever needs to be done” for peace in Ukraine, the Pope said yesterday on a flight back from Hungary, Vatican News reports. “Also, a mission is now underway, but it’s not public yet. Let’s see how… I’ll tell you when it’s public.” It was asked if the talks with Metropolitan Hilarion and also with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán asked if they could speed up the peace process in Ukraine and also enable a meeting between the Pope and Putin if they could act – in quotation marks – as mediator Francis said : “In this meeting we didn’t talk about Little Red Riding Hood. We’ve talked about all of these things. We talk about it because everyone is interested in the way of peace”.