President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with an icon of the Mother of God with the Infant as a symbol of life. "For many peoples, the image of a mother with a child is a symbol of life that must be protected. Today we presented Pope Leo XIV with a special icon - The Mother of God with the Infant, painted on a fragment of a box from under heavy artillery weapons, brought from near Izium," the president wrote on Telegram. He noted that this icon is about Ukrainian children.