“I will not go to Kyiv yet.
I sent Cardinal Michael Czerny and Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who went there for the fourth time.
But I feel like I don't need to go there.
First I have to go to Moscow, first I have to meet with Putin,” he said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Pope Francis stressed several times that he was ready to go to Moscow for this.
Earlier, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said that the meeting of Pope Francis with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia could take place on neutral territory.