Rome Newsroom, Jul 21, 2022 / 04:15 am
The president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe met wounded Ukrainian soldiers and their families during a visit to Ukraine this week.
Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lithuania, also encountered recently released prisoners among the injured soldiers, according to a press release from the office of the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Grušas “expressed heartfelt words of support and consolation to [the soldiers’] mothers and wives| and bestowed his blessing on the soldiers, who expressed their desire to return to fight in the Ukrainian army after they have recovered, the press release said.