ROME. Ukraine’s Supreme Archbishop Svyatoslav Shevchuk said on Sunday that there is “not a safe and peaceful city” in all of Ukraine, as Russia is heavily bombing the country.
“For 88 days, the people of Ukraine are living a heroic struggle against the Russian aggressor, who has killed our people, burned our cities and villages, started a great pirate war against our people and our state,” said the Ukrainian people. stated in the video.
The archbishop noted that the front line stretched 3,000 kilometers from north to south, with nearly half a million people fighting on both sides, making the scale of the battle “unprecedented in the modern world since the end of WWII.”
“The enemy is conducting active attacks and wars, especially in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions,” Shevchuk said, and continues to seize peaceful areas in the north of our state, even from its own territory on the other side of Ukraine. -Russian border. ”
He said that because of active shootings on Russian territory, “there is no safe and quiet city or place in the whole of Ukraine.”
“But Ukraine is standing. Ukraine is at war. Ukraine is praying. Ukraine is under occupation,” he said.
“Ukraine also bears witness to the truth,” said the Archbishop. “Not only before God, not only before his brothers in Ukraine, but Ukraine bears witness to the whole world that there are certain values that deserve to live and die.”
In the war against Ukraine, he complained, “Russia is using all the power of its ideological machine.” He is destroying the human hearts and souls of his own citizens, not only sending them to be killed in Ukraine, but also spreading evil throughout the world.”
This ideology, which was part of military aggression, “is now known in the world as the ideology of the Russian world,” he said. He tries to “justify evil” and “criminal activity of the Russian army in Ukraine” in Christian clothes.
In a thinly veiled reference to Patriarch Kirill, he said, “We are deeply saddened that even Christian leaders are not only making such an ideology, not only inciting evil, but also trying to make this evil a way of preaching for their churches.” of Moscow.
“Now we must all stand against evil together,” said Shevchuk. “We must understand that those who preach hatred, incite murder and justify war in Ukraine are personally responsible for these crimes,” he said.
“Now anyone who justifies war and promotes sin becomes a murderer, like the one who directly kills civilians in Ukraine,” he added.
“God bless Ukraine! God bless the Ukrainian army, which protects the lives and health of Ukrainians! ” he prayed. “God bless the Ukrainian army, whose bodies protect Europe and the world from the ideology of the” Russian world “and from everything that destroys the souls and hearts of people around the world!”
Source: Breitbart
