Zelensky thanks UOC for help in arranging humanitarian corridor in Mariupol
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in his address today thanked the UOC for its help in organising a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol.
"I am grateful to the representatives of the Church who joined the efforts to protect the humanitarian corridor in Mariupol from shelling," Zelensky said.
The President called on all Ukrainians "to work together, without internal divisions, supporting each other, throughout Ukraine".
On 10 March, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry made a statement in which he called on everyone concened to provide real humanitarian corridors for the urgent evacuation of civilians from settlements in the line of fire and to guarantee their safety.
As reported earlier, the UOC helped to organize a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol.
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