Pope Leo has hit out at President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal and has warned that the administration risks destroying the longstanding alliance between Europe and the United States.

As Ukraine faces growing pressure from the U.S. to accept major territorial losses and other concessions as a trade-off for Russia to end its years-long incursion, the pope has weighed in with a stinging rebuke to America’s approach.

“Unfortunately, some parts of it that I have seen make a huge change in what was, for many, many years, a true alliance between Europe and the United States,” he said after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“The remarks that are made about Europe, also in interviews recently, I think are trying to break apart what I think needs to be a very

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