Nuncio Kiev: “Stop aggression, now not possible Cross brought with the Russians”

There is a small town in Ukraine, “Borodjanka: I pronounce the name and that’s enough to cry. We don’t even know how many are dead. Not to mention Mariupol, a martyr city”. Monsignor Visvaldas Kulbokas, apostolic nuncio to Kiev, has been seeing the massacre in front of his eyes for almost 50 days. And he starts from this incontrovertible reality, caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, to comment to the Adnkronos the chorus of voices who do not share the Holy See’s plan to have a Ukrainian and a Russian carry the Cross, together, in the Way. Crucis at the Colosseum, Good Friday. The nuncio speaks with the sole intention of “building”. And on the initiative he observes: “It is beautiful, it is necessary, one hundred percent, but I cannot propose it to the Ukrainians at the precise moment in which violence is hanging over their heads.” In short, a Ukrainian together is likely to remain a facade, little more than a do-gooder? “In the face of the violence that we have in our eyes every day – observes the nuncio in Kiev – today is the moment above all to cry under the cross and to invoke the Lord for forgiveness to all humanity and to grant ourselves peace”.