Pope Leo XIV mentioned on Saturday during a private audience that it would be wonderful if he could travel to Ukraine. He indicated that a plan was in place but that implementing it would be challenging, the ANSA news agency reported.
“It would be nice to go to Kyiv. There is a plan ready, but it is difficult to implement,” the Pope stated during one of his meetings at the Vatican, ANSA quoted.
Just four days earlier, on 9 December, the Pope had received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, located 30 kilometres southeast of Rome. After their meeting, the Ukrainian leader announced that he had invited the Pope to visit Kyiv, emphasising that this would send a strong signal of support for the Ukrainian nation. He also expressed his gratitude to His Holiness for his constant prayers for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, as well as for his calls for a just peace.
