May 2. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Kremlin has said this Tuesday that it is not aware of a mission by the Vatican to try to achieve peace in Ukraine, as a result of the conflict unleashed on February 24, 2022 by the invasion order given by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
“No, we don’t know anything,” Kreminin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said after being asked at a press conference about the Pope’s statements, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
During the day on Monday, the Government of Ukraine also said that it “has no knowledge” about the participation of the Vatican in a peace mission. “If these talks are taking place, they are taking place without our knowledge or without our blessing,” Ukrainian presidential sources told .
Pope Francis affirmed on Sunday that “there is a mission underway at the moment”, although he qualified that “it is not public for now”. “When it’s public, I’ll talk about it,” he said, before showing his willingness to support efforts to return to Ukraine children brought to Russia as part of the conflict.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on March 17 for Putin and the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights of the Russian Federation, Maria Alekseievna Lvova-Belova on the presumption of war crimes for forced deportation. of Ukrainian children from Ukrainian war-captured areas to Russian territory.
