Meanwhile, Russia has said its President, Vladimir Putin, will not attend Pope Francis’s funeral.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this this Tuesday. Recall that Putins’ foreign travel has been limited by an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, for alleged forced deportation of children during Russia’s offensive on Ukraine.
However, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his wife, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, will be among the dignitaries attending the funeral of Pope Francis.