Posted on 08/26/2022 6:17:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME – Ukraine’s Foreign Minister convoked the Vatican ambassador to the country on Thursday to express “profound disappointment” over the pontiff’s words the day before regarding the Aug. 20 killing of Darya Dugina in Moscow by a car bomb.
Dugina, 29 at the time of her death, was a vocal supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the daughter of a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher. Investigators say it’s not yet clear whether Dugina or her father, or perhaps both, were the intended targets. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused Ukraine of being responsible for the attack, a charge Ukrainian officials have dismissed, suggesting instead that elements within the FSB itself carried it out.
As part of an appeal for peace in Ukraine at the conclusion of his General Audience on Wednesday, Francis referred to Dugina as an “innocent.”
“I think of that poor girl blown up by a bomb under the seat of her car in Moscow,” the pope said. “Innocents pay the price of war, innocents!”
Those words quickly produced backlash from many Ukrainians, including the country’s ambassador to the Vatican who took to Twitter to express disappointment. In general, some Ukrainians believe the pope too often conflates the aggressors and the victims.
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Stupid PR move by the Ukrainians.
As far as Ukraine is concerned, she’s a Russian and thus deserves to die. No different than how Jews were looked at in Europe in the late 1930 through much of the 1940s.
And yet our government pours tax dollars into defending their borders while undermining ours ...
Texas and Arizona are not major money-laundering hubs for the DNC. Ukraine is.
Fixed.
Very creative.
She was killed by the FSB because the idea that Russia should be declared a “state sponsor of terrorism” was starting to get real traction in the past few weeks. So in typical Putinist fashion they decided to make a big mess and blame Ukraine for a terrorist attack in Moscow. Now Putin’s useful idiots parrot the Kremlin talking points of the day.
Yeah, you’re probably right.
Texas and Arizona are not major money-laundering hubs for the DNC. Ukraine is.
And Moscow is a hub for the Biden crime family. Hunter laundered a few million for a Putin connected Russian oligarch. Who knows what else, too.
Unrepentant NeverTrump scum, as bloodthirty as they come.
Sounds like Dmytro Kuleba needs a good tune-up and a curbstomping to smooth out the wrinkles.
Plus Kazakhstan, China, Romania, etc. Gee, is there any country where Hunter didn’t get bribes for the big guy?
Yep. It’s Putinist gaslighting: “All sides are bad. Therefore, Ukraine is not worthy of support from west.” We’ve seen this KGB/FSB Kremlin scripted movie before. Many times. They invented this stuff, basically.
“Unrepentant NeverTrump scum, as bloodthirty as they come.”
The degree of pure hatred is SCARY, particularly when one thinks about the last century.
Jews didn’t attack and kill Nazis.
More of that assaholic Uke arrogance.
“Jews didn’t attack and kill Nazis.”
Exactly.
But Russia did attack Ukraine
Agree. The scary thing is we know all that and the Biden’s really haven’t been investigated. Imagine if they got the Trump treatment. They’d all be in jail. Every last Biden in the phone book. In fact the Biden Crime family has the USG covering up their crimes. Incredible. We live in historic times.
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