Russian shelling of the Caritas-Spes Ukraine warehouse in Lviv destroyed 300 tons of humanitarian supplies and vehicles. The building, with all its equipment, burned to the ground. The incident occurred on Tuesday, September 19, at around 5:00 am.
Photo credit : Caritas-Spes Ukraina
One of the drones with which the Russians attacked Lviv on Tuesday morning also hit a Caritas-Spes Ukraine humanitarian aid warehouse.
„The attack on our warehouse once again confirmed Russia’s true intentions. After all, there were no strategic facilities nearby,” noted Caritas-Spes Ukraine Executive Director Fr. Vyacheslav Hrynevych SAC.
As Fr. Hrynevych stressed, since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, a network has been successfully organized for humanitarian projects. „One of the branches of this network has been destroyed, so this will delay the delivery of humanitarian aid that has already been planned and prepared, and for which people in great need have been waiting,” Caritas-Spes Ukraine’s executive director said. „However, the most important thing is that no one was killed and no one was injured,” he added.
In 2023, Caritas-Spes Ukraine’s faith-based mission assisted in 23 regions, 15,000 villages, and 280,046 people as a result of rapid response projects. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 1,048,546 people have received assistance. The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has now lasted more than 570 days.