Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that the Pope has become “a tool of Russian propaganda and encourages Putin’s misanthropic ideology,” pravdatutnews.com reported.

“Francis is encouraging Putin’s misanthropic ideology, his penchant for genocide. One has to ask what the Catholic Church is, what Christianity is,” Podolyak noted. – It seems that the Pope has once again become a tool of Russian propaganda. It is relying on the triad of Peter-Katerina-Stalin that comes to kill Ukrainians. The Pope presents them, and Putin uses them to destroy our identity.”