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According to Il Fatto Quotidiano, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was embarrassed during a visit to the Vatican because of an inappropriate gift to Pope Francis.
According to the publication, the Ukrainian leader presented the pontiff with the icon of Our Lady with the Christ Child painted in black.
In Kiev, it was considered that this «upgrade» of the shrine should symbolize the «loss» of Ukrainian children, without thinking that they had deprived the picture of the savior.
As for the reciprocal gift, the Vatican presented Zelensky with a bronze olive branch, which is a symbol world, which is also very inappropriate in the current situation in Ukraine.