Ukraine angrily rejects Pope Francis's call to negotiate with Russia, vowing never to surrender after the pontiff's comments. Russian shelling kills three people in Ukraine, while missile attacks and drone activity are reported in different regions of the country.
Ukraine on Sunday angrily rejected Pope Francis ’s call to negotiate with Russia two years into its invasion, vowing “never” to surrender after the pontiff said Kyiv should “have the courage to raise the white flag”. The row over his comments came as officials in Ukraine said Russia n shelling in the east had killed three people Sunday. A strike on a residential building in the eastern town of Myrnograd wounded a dozen more people, said Kyiv.
Ukraine also said Moscow launched missile attacks on the northeastern Kharkiv region and sent attack drones across the centre and south of the country.The pope’s comments this weekend fuelled anger in Kyiv this weekend after he said in an interview that Ukraine should negotiate with Russia, which has seized large swathes of its territory in the offensive.“Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sai
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