NEW: 96-year-old Boris Romantchenko, who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps, was killed in the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine's foreign minister said. “Survived Hitler, murdered by Putin,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote.
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The Buchenwald Memorial Institute issued a statement saying it is “appalled at the news of Boris Romantschenko’s violent death in the war in Ukraine.” He also said the Kremlin is falsely claiming to be stopping a genocide in Ukraine, “abusing the term that we reserve for the greatest atrocities, disrespecting every victim of this heinous crime.”
In a speech in a private meeting at the Vatican with volunteer members of the I Was Thirsty organization, which promotes clean drinking water to poor areas of the world, the pope decried war and the money spent on weapons.
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