The Pope compares the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the famine caused by Stalin and speaks of “genocide”

VATICAN CITY – The choice of Pope francesco to commemorate the Ukrainian “genocide” caused by Stalin in the 1930s, thus drawing a parallel between today’s and yesterday’s Russian “aggression”, falls within the policy of “empathy” that the Holy See is pursuing both with Kiev how much with Moscain the hope, never dormant, that there is still room for diplomatic negotiation and truce.

“Let’s pray