'Our flag is a yellow and blue one,' Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote. 'This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags.'
Ukraine's foreign minister, responding to Pope Francis's call to show "the courage of the white flag" and negotiate an end to the war with Russia, said on Sunday that Kyiv would never capitulate and told the Vatican to pay special heed to its role in World War Two.Francis made the comments in an interview made available in part at the weekend.
"Ukraine is wounded, but not conquered! Ukraine is exhausted, but it stands and will stand!" the church's website quoted Shevchuk as saying in New York."Believe me, no one has any idea of surrendering."Zelenskiy's peace planUkraine has been unable to repel Russian forces since Moscow's full-scale invasion two years ago, but rejects negotiations while Moscow's troops remain in the slightly less than 20% of its territory they hold.
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