Ukraine responds sharply to Pope Francis on Sunday, vowing to "never" surrender to Russia. Pope Francis called on kyiv not to be "ashamed of negotiating before things get worse" Head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, replied: "We know the strategy of the Vatican in the first part of the 20th century" Ukraine's ambassador to the Vatican, Andriy Yurash, compared the suggestion to negotiations with Hitler during World War II.
The primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church also reacted, without clearly mentioning the pope.