“In Russia, they refuse to consider the Holy See as a place of “peace talks” with Ukraine, hiding in particular by EU sanctions. Source: such an explanation came from high -ranking Reuters sources in the leadership of Russia, writes “European Truth” details: according to one of the Reuters interlocutors, “the Vatican is certainly not regarded in Russia as a serious force capable of resolving such a complex conflict.””, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Such an explanation came from high -ranking Reuters sources in the leadership of Russia, writes “European Truth”
Details: According to one of the Reuters interlocutors, “the Vatican is certainly not considered in Russia as a serious force capable of resolving such a complex conflict.”
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Among the reasons that have given three sources of the agency, was mentioned by Sergiy Lavrov the thesis that the Catholic country, they say, could not be a mediator in the war between “mostly Orthodox powers.”
They also complained that the Vatican was surrounded by Italy – a member of NATO, who supports Ukraine and has repeatedly imposed sanctions against Russia.
Another argument made by the Reuters interlocutors was that many Russians would seem very difficult to get the Vatican from Moscow because of the EU’s personal sanctions.
(In order to illustrate the weightedness of this argument, we will remind that the sanctions did not prevent Lavrov from participating in the OSCE Ministerial Meetings in 2023 and 2024.)
The Bloomberg Agency from Russian sources last week learned that the Kremlin was not planning a trip to Vladimir Putin to the Vatican or any time for negotiations.
Pope Lion XIV himself proposed to give the Vatican as a place for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia – this idea was supported by Kyiv, European States and the United States.