With the Russian invasion of Ukrainian soil, which completes 111 days this Tuesday, in the opinion of Pope Francis, the Third World war.
According to the transcript of a conversation with directors of cultural magazines, the supreme pontiff said that “a few years ago it occurred to me to say that we were living through a Third World War in pieces. Now, for me, the Third World War has been declared. And this It is an aspect that should make us reflect. What is happening to humanity that has had three world wars in a century?
The talk was published today by the newspaper La Stampa and it highlights that for the Pope the Kremlin’s war against the Ukrainian people “in some way, was provoked or not prevented”.
Specifically, the highest representative of the Catholic Church stressed that “we must move away from the normal pattern of Little Red Riding Hood was good and the wolf was bad.” And then he quoted the opinion of a Head of State that he knew before the start of the war and who expressed his concern “for how NATO was moving”.
By insisting on that point, according to the story that was recorded, the Pope listened to that person who was barking at the gates of Russia. “And they don’t understand that the Russians are imperial and they don’t allow any foreign power to get close to them.”
In the exact words of Pope Francis, there is a danger of focusing only on the “brutality and ferocity” with which this war is being waged by the troops, generally mercenaries, used by the Russians, who prefer to send Chechens, Syrians and mercenaries” .
So far, the president Volodímir Zelenski He has already calculated which areas of his country are being devastated by the Russians, and which have been resisting. Among those in imminent danger is Severodonetskin Luhansk, while in Jarkov are getting rid of the soldiers sent by Vladimir Putin.