Pope called Buryats and Chechens ‘cruel’
The Pope said that “Buryats, Chechens and other Russians who do not belong to the Russian tradition”, as a rule, in Ukraine Russia are the “cruelest” fighters of the army
Head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis in an interview with the Jesuit magazine “America”. Ukraine spoke in detail about his attitude to the war.
He also responded to accusations that he did not mention the names of the perpetrators of the war and that he was content only with calling for peace on both sides.
Francis Ukraine talking about his war Russia explained the fact that he did not mention the name of President Vladimir Putin by saying that this politician is “already well known”.
He added that “everyone, with or without Putin, knows his position.”
“Stalin’s Genocide”
The Pope called Holodomor “a historical prelude” to the current war.
The Pope said that Holodomor was “Stalin’s genocide against Ukrainians”.
He emphasized in the interview that Ukraine considers his people “sufferers”:
“If there are people who suffer, then there is someone who makes them suffer. “When I talk about Ukraine, I talk about brutality, because I have information about the brutality of the army that intervened in Ukraine.”
Pope Francis said that he believes that “Buryats, Chechens and other Russians who do not belong to the Russian tradition”, as a rule, in Ukraine Russia are the “cruelest” fighters of the army.
“Those who consider themselves civilized…”
To this statement of the Pope, the head of Buryatia Alexey Tsydenov and the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova they reacted immediately.
Tsydenov said that it seems strange to him that the head of the church called some specific nationalities “cruel”.
“History has many examples of the destruction of cities, countries and even nations by nations that consider themselves civilized.”
Zakharova reminded that 20In the early 00s, they said the exact opposite, that the Russians hurt the Caucasians, but now they say otherwise.
Kyiv Russian soldiers, including those from Buryatia and Chechnya military accuses him of crimes – murders of civilians, attacks on civilian objects and sexual violence.
Investigators of the Hague International Court are working in Ukraine at the invitation of Kiev. Moscow military denies committing crimes.
Russian laws do not provide for the creation of separate ethnic units in the army.
There are also representatives of other nationalities in the formations from Buryatia and Chechnya.