In a Spanish-language interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación, Pope Francis said that “the Vatican never rests” in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine. “I cannot tell you the details because they would cease to be diplomatic efforts. But the attempts will never stop.”

The Pontiff also revealed he had asked Argentine reporter Gustavo Sylvestre not to make public a handwritten letter in which he wrote that journalists who accuse him of being pro-Russian have fallen into “disinformation, slander, defamation, and coprophilia.” (Coprophilia is taking pleasure in excrement.)