The pope wants Ukraine to surrender. That would give Russia a green light for endless war...Pope sparks anger after saying Ukraine should have the ‘courage of the white flag’ and negotiate...Ukraine hits back at Pope Francis...
"The suggestion from Pope Francis that Ukraine should have the “courage” to raise the “white flag” and negotiate a settlement with (in other words, surrender to) Russia was deeply shocking for Kyiv and its backers. The understandably outraged response from Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was that the only flag Kyiv would raise was its own: the yellow and blue of Ukraine."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/13/pope-francis-ukraine-russia-war-surrender
"Pope Francis has sparked anger after saying Ukraine should have the “courage of the white flag” and negotiate to end the war with Russia."
"The comments brought a swift response from Kyiv, which has seen tens of thousands killed and is seeking to recapture all its territory seized by Russia.
“Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a post on social media Sunday.
“The strongest is the one who, in the battle between good and evil, stands on the side of good rather than attempting to put them on the same footing and call it ‘negotiations’,” he said."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/europe/ukraine-pope-negotiations-russia-intl/index.html
"KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine and its allies have expressed mounting fury at Pope Francis’ suggestion that it should have the “courage” to negotiate an end to the war with Russia.
Kyiv’s ambassador to the Vatican told NBC News on Monday that his country could not accept the pope’s logic — a hint of the intense backlash drawn by the comments, which are not the first by the pope to elicit anger from Kyiv, at a precarious moment for Ukraine on the battlefield and in the battle over public opinion.
“When you see that you are defeated and that things are not going well, you have to have the courage to negotiate,” Francis said in an interview with Swiss broadcaster RSI, which was recorded last month and partly aired Saturday. He urged Ukraine to have what he called “the courage of the white flag.”
The response by outraged Ukrainians was immediate."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-pope-francis-white-flag-peace-talks-russia-war-rcna142713