MPs from the German governing coalition spoke out against Pope Francis’s statement

"Before Ukrainian victims wave the white flag, the Pope has to make loud and clear calls for cruel Russian criminals to take down their pirate flag, the symbol of death and Satan," said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann of the Free Democrats, who heads the Bundestag Defence Committee.

Herself a Catholic, she also noted that the Pope has failed to criticise Patriarch Kirill.
"Why in the name of God is he not condemning verbal incitements to kill Ukrainian people made by Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and the former KGB agent?" she asked.

Meanwhile, Katrin Göring-Eckardt of the Greens said in an interview that no one wants peace more than Ukraine does. She added that "it is Putin who can immediately stop this war and suffering, not Ukraine. Those who demand that Ukraine just surrender give the aggressor that which he claimed illegally, and thus agree to the destruction of Ukraine," she said.

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