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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone conversation with Bartholomew I while at Chișinău Airport on his way to the G7 Summit, UATV English reports.
The President thanked His All-Holiness for his support and for his clear moral position that Russian drone strikes on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra—a holy site not only for Ukraine but for Orthodoxy as a whole—constitute barbarism for which there can be no justification.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Patriarch Bartholomew also discussed possible formats for future in-person meetings.
The President invited His All-Holiness to visit Ukraine and thanked him for his prayers for the country and its people.
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