"This is an act of terror in broad daylight," - Bishop Jan Sobilo on the shelling of Zaporizhzhia
Among the 113 wounded is one child, a 13-year-old girl. In total, the occupants struck 333 times in 12 localities in Zaporizhzhia region over the last day. Two people were killed, while two others were wounded in a strike on Stepnohirsk. According to Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, it was the third time in a month that the Zaporizhzhia region was in mourning because of the Russian occupiers.
At CREDO's request, Auxiliary Bishop of the Kharkiv-Zaporizhzhia Diocese Jan Sobilo commented on Russia's latest terrorist attack:
- “In Zaporizhzhia, the last few days have been very difficult because there are dead, there are wounded, and there has been a large wave of shells that hit people who, for example, are traveling by bus or minibus.
This is an act of terror in broad daylight! Yet, this is also a sign that the occupier can no longer find other methods to frighten Ukraine. Ukraine will not break. We witness these horrors, but it makes us want to fight even more. Even those who, until recently, thought, “Maybe we should really sit down at the negotiating table and give something away”, now realize that we cannot give Russia anything.
We have to fight to the end and defend our country. For Russians are not the people with whom you can negotiate! Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the people of Ukraine, and the residents of Zaporizhzhia are all unequivocally behind Ukraine's victory after such attacks. We will not give anything away! Whatever our enemy does, they will not scare the city residents into leaving, and our soldiers will continue defending the city.
The enemy will not succeed! The determination, the spirit of resilience, to stay and defend and drive the enemy as far as possible - from near Zaporizhzhia, from Vasylivka, from Nikopol, from all of Ukraine, from the Crimea - is even greater. This is the response to what happened in Zaporizhzhia in these last days.
According to Bishop Jan, no one from the RCC parishioners in Zaporizhzhia was injured; however, there are victims among the close relatives of Zaporizhzhia Catholics.
