Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned “the bloodbath of Bucha” and kissed a Ukrainian flag despatched from the city the place tied our bodies shot at shut vary littered the streets after Russian troops withdrew and our bodies poked out of a mass grave at a church.
The deaths in Bucha, out of doors Kyiv, have prompted a world outcry and pledges of additional sanctions towards Moscow from the West.
“Fresh information from the struggle in Ukraine, as an alternative of bringing reduction and hope, introduced new atrocities, such because the bloodbath of Bucha,” Francis stated on the finish of his weekly target audience within the Vatican’s auditorium.
“Forestall this struggle! Let the guns fall silent! Forestall sowing demise and destruction,” he stated, decrying cruelty towards civilians, defenceless girls and youngsters.