Pope admits "certain frustration" with mediation mission in Ukraine

He says that Marseille is a message for the EU: "It welcomes and welcomes without denying the identity of the people"

ROMA, 23 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Pope has admitted "some frustration" with the mediation mission that the Vatican is carrying out with the war in Ukraine, because "the Secretary of State is doing everything possible to help.

This was made clear during the press conference he held on board the plane that brought him back to the Vatican from Marseille, according to Vatican News.

In any case, Francisco has specified that "there is something with the children that is going well", in relation to the mission of mediating to return to Ukraine children deported by Russia, an action that the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky himself, asked him to carried out during his visit to the Vatican.

The Pontiff has also specified that the war is not only a Russian-Ukrainian problem, but that there is "the sale of weapons" and has cried out against the "factories of death."

Furthermore, he stressed that the Ukrainian people are a martyred people, but we should not play with the martyrdom of this people. "We must help them resolve things in the best possible way, what is real is what is possible. In wars what is real is what is possible, not create illusions: that tomorrow the two warring leaders will go to eat together, but to the extent possible. possible, where we will go to do what is possible," he reflected.

He has also warned that now some countries are retreating, not handing over their weapons, and a process is beginning where the martyr will surely be the Ukrainian people. "And that's an ugly thing!", he lamented.

The Pontiff then wanted to return to the reason for his trip to Marseille before ending the press conference to emphasize that Marseille is a port that is a message for Europe: "Marseille welcomes. It welcomes and synthesizes without denying the identity of peoples. "We need to rethink this problem for the other parties: the capacity to welcome," he commented.