Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, urged members of his Eastern-rite church to “treat the representatives of other churches and religious organizations with an open heart.”

“In the circumstances of such a disaster, the unity of the Ukrainian church is being forged, unity in the service of its suffering people,” he said on March 9. “We must do everything today so that the world might hear the voice of the Churches, the cries of Ukraine, to see the rivers of blood and the sea of ​​tears that are now poured out on the lands of Ukraine.”