The wives of two of the last remaining Ukrainian fighters holed up in Mariupol's steelworks asked Pope Francis on Wednesday to help get soldiers evacuated from the plant.
Kateryna Prokopenko, 27, and Yuliya Fedosiuk, 29, spoke to the pontiff for about five minutes at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square, also asking him to intervene directly with President Vladimir Putin to let them go because "Russian captivity is not an option".
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