Chechens and Buryat soldiers are generally 'crueller' than other Russians in Ukraine, the pontiff says.
Russia has hit out at comments from the Pope that some minority groups of soldiers have behaved worse than others in the invasion of Ukraine.He also labelled the Holodomor famine caused by the Kremlin in Ukraine in the 1930s a genocide.In an interview with
Buryats, a Mongol ethnic group indigenous to Buryatia, in eastern Siberia, traditionally follow Buddhist and shamanic belief systems. In apparent response to accusations of not directly condemning President Putin, he said: "Sometimes I try not to specify so as not to offend and rather condemn in general, although it is well known whom I am condemning. It is not necessary that I put a name and surname."
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