Late last month, Welby visited Ukraine, where he met with church leaders, local Christians, and people displaced by the conflict.
As the archbishop said, he was struck “by the size of the mass graves in Bucha, by the photographs showing what was done to the people there, by the rapes, the massacres, the torture committed by the Russian occupation troops”.
The consequences of this invasion are being felt far beyond Ukraine’s borders, Welby said.
“The week before I went to Ukraine, I was in Mozambique, where there is famine all along the north coast of East Africa,” he said.
“There is inflation, there is an energy crisis, there is suffering, there is a shortage of medicines, all evil is unleashed, and until there is a withdrawal of troops and a cease fire, we cannot make progress on reconciliation”, explained the Archbishop. of Canterbury.
Welby has previously publicly condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, calling the February invasion “an act of enormous evil”.
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