Vatican's foreign minister discusses Ukraine with Russia's Lavrov


  • World
  • Friday, 04 Apr 2025

An employee inspects the site of a car dealership facility hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Brovary, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -The Vatican's Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher held a phone call on Friday with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the war in Ukraine and plans to stop the fighting, the Vatican said.

Russia's foreign ministry later said the call had been initiated by the Vatican, and that Lavrov and Gallagher had discussed "ways to resolve the Ukrainian crisis with the obligatory reliable elimination of its root causes".

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