Pope compares Ukrainian suffering to WWII Nazi death operation

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine December 2, 2022. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to a Nazi operation that killed some two million people, mostly Jews, in the first years of World War Two.

Speaking to Polish pilgrims at his weekly general audience, Francis noted that the Catholic University of Lublin, in Poland, had recently commemorated the anniversary of Operation Reinhard.