ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but has not received a response.
The pope also told Italy’s Corriere Della Sera newspaper that Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has backed the war, “cannot become Putin’s altar boy”.
(Reporting by Francesca Piscionieri and Philip Pullella; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
