ON-GOING COURAGE

Like all tragedies in our modern world, when they go on and on, we tend to forget, or become hardened to the death toll.  This is the case of the on-going destruction of the Ukraine and her people. Now it seems no area is safe in this country anymore. Russian missile attacks can hit anywhere at anytime, with terrible results.

The Ukrainian Madonna-  Vladyslav Shereshevsky, Kyiv

Two days ago Russian Armed Forces  launched several rocket attacks on the city of Vinnytsia, killing at least 24 people (including three children), and injuring over 200. The strike has been labeled as a war crime by officials from multiple countries. When one looks at the map, this city is far from the front-lines of the east.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy  said: " Every day, Russia destroys the civilian population, kills Ukrainian children, directs rockets at civilian objects. Where there is nothing military. What is this if not an open terrorist attack? Inhuman. Country of killers. A country of terrorists".

It is unbearably painful to see the death of innocent civilians and the destruction of civil infrastructure in the central streets of peaceful Vinnytsia” said Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk.

It is painful to see a generation of children who will grow up in lands not their own and one wonders when and if they will ever be able to return to their homeland.

We daily pray for the Ukrainian people who continue to show the world their courage and resilience.