For the second time, our sanctions in response to Russia’s prolongation of the war have reached the oil refinery in Ufa, one of Russia’s largest producers of lubricants. The distance is more than 1,300 kilometers from the frontline.
Also in the Penza region, our weapons reached a strategic facility of Russia’s military-industrial complex involved in developing and manufacturing components for missile weaponry that the occupiers use to strike our cities and communities. The distance to the target is about 600 kilometers from the frontline.
Every day, our plan for imposing Ukrainian long-range sanctions is being implemented. This is an entirely just response to everything Russia is doing against us. Peace is needed, and this is exactly what Russia’s leadership must realize. Russia must end its war. And Russia’s leadership has every opportunity to do so. I thank every Ukrainian warrior who ensures our long-range accuracy.
The Kremlin is scrambling to respond to an intensifying campaign of Ukrainian drone attacks reaching ever deeper into Russia, hitting key arms production facilities and causing fuel shortages across the country. https://t.co/QshJUil4B2
Today, as every year on June 22, there will be a lot of grandstanding in Russia about World War II, about one of its bloodiest chapters – Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. A time that for Ukraine has always been a reminder of the importance of peace and of paying tribute to millions of innocent victims of World War II. This was the very period in the 20th century that should have forever changed the way every state and the world as a whole view human life – establishing life itself as the true highest value. There would have been no world wars if the leaders of that era had been guided by the value of human life rather than their imperial delusions.
Yet today, Russia began this day not by honoring those who fell in World War II, and not with signals that could help bring the current war – Russia’s war against Ukraine – closer to an end. Instead, it began with more completely unjustifiable killings. In the Sumy region, a Russian drone killed a child, a grandmother, and a man. The mother and two other children from the same family were wounded. Their home was destroyed. An ordinary home – not a military target whatsoever. In Zaporizhzhia, two people were killed overnight by Russian strikes, and seven others were injured. Tragically, the Odesa region has also seen lives lost. Strikes were carried out against the Kherson, Donetsk, and Kharkiv regions. Once again, Russia targeted energy infrastructure in the Chernihiv region.
This Russian war has no justifiable cause. Putin was driven by exactly the same motives as the aggressors who came before him. He shows the same contempt for human life. He is just as delusional about this absurd “empire” of his that nobody needs. This war must be brought to an end. It has been taking people's lives for nearly five years now. This full-scale war has already lasted longer than World War I. Perhaps Russia wants to wait until it has lasted longer than World War II as well. But the world certainly does not want that, and it certainly has the power to prevent it. There must be pressure on Putin, pressure on Russia, so that all of this ends in a dignified peace and with real, guaranteed protection for human life. Ukraine has put forward every proposal needed for diplomacy. Through our collective pressure on the aggressor, we must bring Russia to a point where it has no option left but diplomacy and ending the war. Thank you to everyone helping us defend Ukraine. Thank you to everyone helping us protect human life.
Last night, our long-range sanctions once again reached the Moscow region – for the second time this week, the Moscow oil refinery was hit. Targets were also struck in the Rostov region and in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This is a fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities and communities, and another important result of our warriors’ work against facilities that sustain Russia’s war machine. I thank our Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine for their coordinated efforts – the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, Defense Intelligence, and our missile brigade for their precision.
In recent days, all of our partners have noted the precision and effectiveness of our mid-range strikes and long-range sanctions. It is time the war ended, and Russia must take the necessary steps in diplomacy.
🚨 Kyiv is under a massive Russian air attack right now. One of Ukraine’s most sacred landmarks - the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra - is on fire. Putin sends his birthday wishes to Donald Trump.
BREAKING:
A Russian drone has struck the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Built in 1051, the monastery is the most important site of Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine.
"El Padre engendró un Hijo y el Hijo no es el Padre; el Hijo es engendrado por el Padre y el Padre no es el Hijo; y el Espíritu Santo no es ni el Padre ni el Hijo, sino el Espíritu del Padre y del Hijo, al Padre y al Hijo coigual."
San Agustín.
(La Trinidad, I, IV, 7)
¡Rechacemos la lógica de la violencia y de la guerra, para abrazar una paz fundada en el amor y la justicia! Una paz que sea desarmada, es decir, no basada en el miedo, las amenazas o las armas; y desarmante, porque es capaz de resolver los conflictos, abrir los corazones y generar confianza, empatía y esperanza. Lo reitero con fuerza: ¡el mundo tiene sed de paz! ¡Basta ya de guerras, con sus dolorosos cúmulos de muertos, destrucciones y refugiados! #ViajeApostólico #Camerún
Pope Leo will preside over all fourteen stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum, carrying the Cross himself throughout the liturgy in what will be his first Holy Friday celebration as Pope.
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A message from Iran.
The mass murder of anti-regime protesters is on a scale that people in the West can’t imagine.
And yet, U.S. university students aren’t protesting and weekly protest marches aren’t organized in London…
The U.S. is sending the first humanitarian shipment to Cuba to help people in need as they continue to recover from Hurricane Melissa. We are working with the Catholic Church and partners to ensure aid reaches the Cuban people directly—not the illegitimate regime. The Trump Administration stands with the Cuban people.
Mons. Javier Román, Obispo de Costa Rica, va a visitar los pueblos remotos de su diócesis con una cruz sobre sus hombros.
Vagando por bosques, ríos y flores, el valiente obispo lleva al Señor a visitar a aquellos que no pueden venir a Él.
@isaacrrr7 No esperes que el vaticano envie misiles o asesinos o una guerra! Mejor reza! Reza para que se detengan! Si no oramos, cómo consegumos la paz?
Si no ayudas, no critiques!