He went on: “Yesterday we saw horrific scenes of the bombarding of a maternity ward as well as scenes of mass graves, common burials, where hundreds of lifeless bodies are laid to rest.”
“Today we must say throughout the world: No! No to mass murder in Ukraine! Since the time of Nazism and Stalin’s repressions, Ukraine has not seen such mass burials in common graves, without honor, without Christian prayer.”
The U.N. human rights office reported on March 9 that it had recorded 1,424 civilian casualties in Ukraine, with 516 people killed and 908 injured. It said that the actual figures were likely to be “considerably higher.”
A priest fleeing Mariupol, a port city on the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine, told the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need on Sunday that the city was “hell.”
The priest, identified only as Father Pavlo, said: “Mariupol is like Armageddon. It is hell. Please tell the world: it is a tragedy. There is just shooting at random. The whole town is like one big battlefield. Everywhere bombs are falling. Everywhere you just hear shooting. Mariupol is a city surrounded by the Russian army. The people are just sitting in their basements.”
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