Parolin,'sending troops to Ukraine would be a fearful escalation' - Breaking news. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, says this when asked on the sidelines of an event.
"I wouldn't say is apocalyptic but fearable", says Parolin. The sending of Western troops to. Ukraine as proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron "would be the escalation that we. have always tried to avoid from the beginning, a scenario that I wouldn't. say isocalyptic but fearful", he says.