From the Head of the UGCC on the 240th day of the war: Help Ukraine keep the peaceful atom peaceful to prevent the occupiers from altering it to another weapon
Ukraine lives in a regime of a strict economy of electric energy. Our energy engineers told me about the terrible events at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The Russian occupier does not understand, and perhaps does not want to understand, all the dangers and threats that actions aimed at disrupting energy security on it can bring. Dreams of demilitarization of this zone of the ZNPP remained only dreams.
This power plant is shelled by the occupiers every day. We foresee that even the provision of the necessary cooling of the reactors is under great question. The Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, said in his daily military address on the 240th day of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The Archbishop continued his thoughts on how to protect, strengthen and support the Ukrainian family. “It is impossible to build a country, to build a state,” believes the Head of the UGCC, “without protection and support, without the pro-family policy of the government, the pro-family policy of our various public organizations, without national security and assistance to the Ukrainian family. Natural marriage has its dignity, and it must be affirmed and protected. The protection of society and the marriage union is vital for the newlyweds because it seems to be an expression of guarantees that your family life will be safe. All the rights that society has concerning the family will be guaranteed. And in this way, a man and a woman will be helped to keep their marriage vows.”
“Let us together cherish family values because these family values, to put it briefly, are not only the values of the Christian world or Christian culture. These are universal human values. And when the family institution is despised and destroyed, then humanity, the humanity of the person of the third millennium, is destroyed,” warns the Primate.
His Beatitude Sviatoslav called on the world public to help Ukraine, which every day becomes the target of Russia’s tireless, terrible terrorist attacks on the energy infrastructure.
“Today, being an energy engineer in Ukraine is dangerous for life. Today, we thank Ukrainian energy workers for their dedicated work. We are grateful that they are ready, even at the cost of their own lives, to ensure the livelihood of our Motherland. May the Lord God bless them, support them, and the world should hear the voice of our brave specialists, brave, courageous people who, under rockets, under shelling, carry out their professional, civic and Christian vocation.”
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