Ukraine’s foreign minister reacted to Pope’s words about ‘white flag’
Source: Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba responded to the statement of Pope Francis regarding the need to ‘raise a white flag’ for negotiations with the Russian Federation.
He reminded the pontiff that the flag of Ukraine is blue and yellow, so Ukrainians will not raise another one.
Kuleba emphasized that the strongest person is the one who takes the side of good in the battle between good and evil, and does not try to equalize them, calling it ‘negotiations’.
‘As for the white flag, we know this Vatican strategy from the history of the first half of the 20th century. I urge you not to repeat historical mistakes and to consistently support Ukraine and its people in a fair fight for their own lives. Our flag is blue and yellow. Under it we live, die and win. We will not raise other flags,’ the minister wrote.
At the same time, he thanked His Holiness Pope Francis for his constant prayers for peace and expressed hope that after two years of devastating war in the heart of Europe, the Pope will find an opportunity to make an Apostolic visit to Ukraine to ‘support more than a million Ukrainian Catholics, more than five million Greek Catholics, all Christians and all Ukrainians’.
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