Pope Francis has called for measures to be taken against the risk of nuclear disaster at the Zaporiza nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
At the end of the Wednesday general audience he hosted at the Vatican on the 24th local time, the Pope said, “I hope that concrete measures will be taken to end the war and prevent the risk of a nuclear disaster at the Zaporiza nuclear power plant,” Vatican News, the state media of the Holy See, said. reported.
Recently, large and small shellings have occurred around the Zaporiza nuclear power plant occupied by the Russian military, raising concerns that a nuclear disaster similar to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident may occur.
Russia and Ukraine are fighting each other for responsibility, claiming that they were responsible for the attack on the Zaporiza nuclear power plant.
At the end of the general audience on Wednesday, the Pope said, “Pray for the Lord’s peace for the people of Ukraine who have been suffering the horrors of war for six months.”
He also mentioned the death of the daughter of the far-right political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, who is known to have had a major impact on Putin’s thought, in a car explosion.
“I think of the poor woman who died in Moscow because of the madness of war,” Pope Francis said.
He then denounced the arms traders as “criminals killing humanity,” referring to Syria, which has been in a civil war for more than a decade, Yemen, where many children starve to death due to hunger, and Rohingyas in Myanmar who have been displaced by injustice. and ordered to remember their pain as well.
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