Pope Francis called Daria Dugin an “innocent” victim of the war. The Ambassador of Ukraine to the Vatican accurately reacted to such an outrageous statement.
The Pontiff once again made an outrageous statement during the full-scale war in Ukraine. This time, Francis by some miracle remembered the daughter of the ideologist of the “Russian world” Alexander Dugin in the context of the war in Ukraine.
You can't put an aggressor and a victim in the same category, – Ambassador
Ukrainian Ambassador to the Vatican Andriy Yurash noted that he was rather disappointed by the Pope's words. He stressed that a person calling for the killing of Ukrainians cannot be considered an “innocent” victim in the context of the war in Ukraine.
It is impossible to speak in the same categories about the aggressor and the victim, the rapist and the raped. How can one call the ideologist of Russian imperialism as an innocent victim? The Russians killed her as a sacred sacrifice, and now she is on the shield of war,” Yurash stressed.
What the Pope said and why it outrages
On August 24, Francis spoke at the weekly general audience, the main topic which was a call for concrete steps to end the war in Ukraine. However, for some reason the pontiff decided to talk about the lost gift of Dugin.
The head of the Catholic Church called the daughter of the Ukrainophobe an “innocent” victim of the war. The pontiff also said that arms dealers profiting from the war are “offenders who are killing humanity.” At the same time, Francis did not specify how the murder by Dughina near Moscow is connected with the war in Ukraine and its victims. For example, an 11-year-old boy from the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, who was killed by a Russian rocket on Independence Day.
Ukraine has nothing to do with the murder of Dugin. Both the authorities and the military have repeatedly spoken about this. At the same time, with these words, Francis only played along with Russian propaganda, which seeks to accuse Ukraine of the murder of a Russian woman.
