Last night, 110 Italian activists on a train departing from Kiev found themselves under massive Russian attack on Lviv, according to SIR, the Religious Information Service.
The Russian airstrike that hit Ukraine also narrowly missed the convoy carrying Italian activists returning from the tenth MEAN (European Movement for Nonviolent Action) mission, which departed from Kiev and was headed for the Polish border.
After about three hours of travel in the Zhytomyr area , the shelling began, continuing in Lviv with explosions and artillery fire heard from the train. The train then continued on toward the Polish border.
In Kharkiv, SIR explains, the MEAN held dozens of meetings with Ukrainian civil society to develop projects based on the real needs of the population, determined to continue "despite the short distance from the Russian border."
The mission was also accompanied by the apostolic nuncio, who, along with the Catholic bishop, the Greek Catholic bishop, and Orthodox representatives, participated in a prayer at the cemetery to defend Kharkiv and remember all the victims of the war. "Ukraine," declared Marco Bentivogli, one of the spokespersons for the MEAN, "has been defending the world for 1,320 days. We will be at their side for as long as necessary."
(Unioneonline)
