Pope Francis has said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine was “perhaps somehow provoked” as he recalled a conversation in the run-up to the war in which he was warned Nato was “barking at the gates of Russia”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/14/pope-francis-ukraine-war-provoked-russian-troops
@yogthos you can tell he's using that many qualifiers because he doesn't want the US smiting him.