ROME, Italy: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Pope Francis Saturday during a trip to Rome, as Berlin unveiled a huge new weapons package ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Zelenskyy spent 40 minutes with the 86-year-old pontiff at the Vatican, after earlier meeting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has strongly backed Kyiv in the wake of Russia's February 2022 invasion.'I am very grateful to him for his personal attention to the tragedy of millions of Ukrainians,' Zelenskyy said on Telegram after his audience with the pope, the first since February 2020.
'We all hope for a rapid end to this terrible war by Russia against the Ukrainian people, but unfortunately this is not in sight,' Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said in a statement.'This is why Germany will supply all the help that it can, for as long as necessary,' he said.Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, hailed the announcement, saying it indicated that Russia was 'bound to lose and sit on the bench of historical shame.
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