The Kremlin said on Tuesday it knew nothing about the Vatican’s peacekeeping mission in Ukraine after Pope Francis announced it late last week, Reuters reported.
“The mission is currently underway, but it is not yet public. When it is made public, I will reveal it,” the sovereign pontiff told reporters on his flight home after a three-day visit to Hungary.
“I believe that peace is always achieved by opening channels of communication. You can never achieve peace by shutting them down. … It’s not easy,” Pope Francis emphasized.
“At these meetings, we talked not only about Little Red Riding Hood. We talked about all these things. Everyone is interested in the path to peace,” he added.
He also said that he spoke about the situation in Ukraine with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Budapest, Metropolitan Hilarion, after meeting with several Ukrainian refugees in Hungary.
Responding to a daily press conference on the Vatican’s peacekeeping mission, Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said he had no information about such an initiative.
Peskov’s comments came a day after Ukraine itself denied reports of such talks.
“President Zelensky did not agree to such discussions on behalf of Ukraine,” a Ukrainian official close to the presidential administration told CNN. “If discussions are taking place, then without our knowledge or blessing,” he stressed.
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