ROME – On Monday the Vatican confirmed a recent phone call between a top official and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and voiced its hope that any ceasefire agreement reached would be free of any “preconditions”.
In a March 17 statement, the Vatican confirmed that three days prior, on March 14, Zelenskyy spoke with Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin over the phone, which Zelenskyy wrote about the same day on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
During that conversation, the Vatican said, Zelenskyy “expressed his wishes for a quick recovery for the Holy Father Francis and informed of the ceasefire initiative proposed by the United States, which Ukraine has adhered to”.
