Analyst Bortnik: “Two visible goals and one secret. Here’s what Zelensky wants to get from the Pope”

KIEV – President Zelensky’s mission to Rome and Vatican City, and the Chinese mission in Europe and in the two capitals at war, appear to be the last chance to stop a carnage in extremis which will be the only certain outcome of the imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ruslan Bortnik is a well-known political scientist, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics: we asked him to explain to us what is happening and what margins there are for a real alternative to bombs.