“Unexpectedly and unexpectedly, the head of the Catholics of the world was forced to speak unkindly about our people,” he wrote on Telegram.
According to him, life in Siberia and the Far East makes people more persistent, patient and resilient to various hardships.
In early November, Pope Francis stated that he highly values the Russian people and Russian humanism.
According to him, he has "love for the Russian and Ukrainian peoples", and also continues to work to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that the statements of Pope Francis about Chechens and Buryats, which he made in an interview with Western media, are an outrageous perversion of the truth.
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reported that more than 20,000 Chechens took part in a special operation in Ukraine, and more than 9,000 fighters are currently on the front lines.