"Every war leaves our world worse than it was before," said Pope Francis.
Pope Francis in a Russian language tweet on Friday denounced the ills of conflict on the second day of a large-scale Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.
"Every war leaves our world worse than it was before. War is a failure of politics and of humanity, a shameful capitulation, a stinging defeat before the forces of evil," he wrote in separate English and Russian tweets.
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