"The recent news about the war in Ukraine, instead of bringing relief and hope, instead testifies to new atrocities, such as the Bucha massacre. More and more horrendous cruelties, also committed against civilians, women and defenseless children. They are victims whose innocent blood screams to the Heaven and implore: put an end to this war, silence the weapons, stop sowing death and destruction. Let us pray together about this ". Pope Francis said this at the end of the general audience, which was also attended by many refugees from the country invaded by Russian troops in Italy, including many children.
In the current war in Ukraine - added the Holy Father, who was given a blue and yellow flag coming from Bucha - “we are witnessing the impotence of the United Nations Organization. Today we often talk about 'geopolitics', but unfortunately the dominant logic is that of the strategies of the most powerful states to assert their interests by extending the area of economic, ideological and military influence ”.
About ten Ukrainian refugees, including 6 children, present at the hearing arrived from Sardinia, accompanied by Ugo Cappellacci, deputy and president of the Ukraine section of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and the Ukrainian consul on the island Anthony Grande.
In the last mission "Mamma mia" on the Polish border, the two managed to transfer 100 refugees to the island on board two buses in addition to another hundred people, mostly minors, who had already been saved from bombs in the previous weeks.
(Unioneonline / lf)
