Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said on March 20 that “without Communion of the Body and Blood of our Savior we cannot live, we cannot survive in the circumstances of war.”

“It is precisely the Mystery of the Eucharist that gives us the strength of life to overcome death,” he added, as he lamented the destruction of some “44 churches and religious buildings” … It is strange that the majority of these churches belong today to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.”