He believes that the pontiff learned about the Chechens and Buryats from the Ukrainian media.
According to Lebedev, the Pope said something stupid.
“He is still the Pope and must watch his speech.
And not just repeating whatever ... (absurdity. - RT ) simply because they said it ... In short, he retold it, and this is a shame and disgrace to the Pope, ”said Lebedev.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, at a round table in the Federation Council drew attention to the fact that the pontiff, in an interview with American media, called the Chechens and Buryats "the most brutal part of the Russian troops in Ukraine."
Zakharova called this statement by the pontiff an outrageous perversion of the truth.