Pope prays for “Ukrainian and Russian mothers”
Pope Francis today commemorated the “Ukrainian mothers and Russian mothers” of the soldiers killed in Ukraine, and at the end of the prayer asked for prayers for those who “lost their children” and paid the “price of war”. . The Pope wanted to remember the “Ukrainian brothers” who had “sufficed so much”, spent “this Christmas in war, without light, without heat”, and asked the thousands of believers gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to him “don’t forget them.”
“And today, when I see the Virgin carrying the child in the manger, breastfeeding, I think of the mothers of the war victims, the soldiers who were martyred in this war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian mothers and the Russian mothers,” he stressed.
The Pope then wanted to pay tribute to them for their suffering: “Both of them lost their children, that’s the price of the war, let’s pray for the mothers who lost their soldier sons, whether Ukrainian or Russian,” he added. His words were met with applause by the believers.