In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an average of about 30 local Ukrainians have been showing up daily to the St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Los Angeles to help pack boxes with a variety of emergency aid.
They’ve been packing things like first aid and hospital supplies, along with items that can be used by the military — such as flashlights and binoculars — and other critical items such as baby formula, said Seva Mohylyak, who’s coordinating the effort.
“The basement in the church is packed with stuff ready to go,” said Mohylyak, a Ukrainian immigrant whose father is a surgeon in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
It’s all headed for Ukraine on a flight scheduled to leave LAX on Thursday.
Full story at LAist.com.
After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put out a call for Ukrainian-Americans to come home and fight — complete with a handy QR code to register — around 1,400 Bay Area Ukrainians are trying to do just that.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has put out the call for another form of aid to the country’s armed forces. As seen in the tweet below, complete with a QR code to sign up, he’s asking people to “join the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces,” which is to say, go over there and help with the fight.
Here in the Bay Area, there are some 13,700 Ukrainian-Americans who were born in Ukraine. And KGO reports that plenty of them are responding to the call.
“The number of those who called us or wrote emails and we have managed to process their request is about 1,400 people,” Counsel General of Ukraine in San Francisco Dmytro Kushneruk told KGO.
Not all of them are picking up machine guns and fighting the war; some are doctors and nurses helping with medical efforts. “My profession is to heal the people and to bring life, so that is my major goal and aim,” Bay Area medical residency student Yan Semenovskyi told KGO. “Nobody wants to die. Everyone is scared of death. But in this case, I don’t know, it’s like a moral duty.”
Full story at SFist.com.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? What about NATO’s invasion? And what about the globalists’ invasion of Europe and attack on everything Christian?
Frankly, I’m more concerned about the WEF and NATO than Russia.
What nation did NATO invade?
Russia did invade Ukraine.
(And, Ukraine is not a member of NATO.)
Russia is waging a literal war, literal invasions and literal attacks (not simply political, economic or ideological ones). There are literal dead and wounded. Do you disbelieve that?
Are you channeling or a descendent of Empress Catherine “the Great?”
Or, an FSB agent reading and posting on CalCatholic?
Or, do you think we didn’t land on the moon and that JFK and Elvis are still alive somewhere?
NATO was making overtures toward Ukraine and had talked about possible membership, going back years ago. If you think that wasn’t provoking Russia, you’re blinded by your ideology.
How would we respond if China or Russia discussed the possibility of entering into a military defense treaty with Mexico? We wouldn’t simply say, eh whatever. We wouldn’t invade Mexico, but we’d consider a possible alliance of Mexico with our enemies to be a threat.
Get real.
Get real, amen to getting real. Will you answer the question, who attacked who?
The Russians admitted using a thermobaric “vacuum” bomb, which violates the Geneva Convention, and sucks the air out of person’s lungs, causing them to fill with liquid, or causing a person’s lungs to rupture or explode. They’re targeting civilians, including women and children.
Ukraine is not sinless, no nation is. But, why the apologists for Russia’s brutal aggression and inhumane crimes against humanity?
Ukraine, in this instance, is clearly on higher moral ground. Open your eyes (and mind), get real.
Would the US allow Chinese or Russian military to operate in Mexico? Joining nations allows nukes back in Ukraine. Russia has legitimate security concerns
Please stop ridiculing those who object to still another foreign adventure.
Let’s assume you’re scenario. In yours, you are saying that we would be justified bombing civilians including hospitals in Mexico? Instead of opening negotiations at the UN or other places we would have amassed 140,000 troops along the Rio Grande. Have we done that? Would we do that? Would that have been our first option had a power Allie’s with a foreign power? Well what about Venezuela? Did we invade Venezuela because they allied with Putin?
I am more skeptical of msm reports. I’ve learned that they lie distort to support whatever insanity the empire wants. Covid, yellow cake uranium. Remember the Maine.
The first casualty on war is the Truth. I dont know what is going on and neither do you
I do think Russia is being canceled just like many who don’t toe the govt line or lies.
There is a distinction between “invade” and “attack”. What NATO member did Serbia “attack”?
Me too!
A nation of virtue-signalers. So many jump on the “I support the current thing” bandwagon.
Hope they felt good about themselves because they accomplished zero.
Blind mole
I am grieved and appalled by what is happening in Ukraine. And, to a lesser degree of course, I am grieved and appalled by the indifference, if not hostility, towards those suffering there, especially by Catholics. There is no reason to oppose humanitarian aid to those suffering in Ukraine. I am not “talking” politics or about military intervention. Some seem so quick to justify Russian aggression that they seem to forget the human suffering or, worse yet, they don’t care. (Only God knows.) We should care for all those suffering; Catholics, Orthodox, unbelievers, Ukrainians, Russians and all. Do the corporal works of mercy no longer apply?
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Jesus (Matthew 25:41-46)
If you’d like to do something for our Lord and our suffering brothers and sisters, please consider the Knights of Columbus humanitarian relief at:
https://www.kofc.org/secure/en/donate/ukraine.html
or the humanitarian aid fund for Ukraine from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archdiocese in the US at:
https://ukrarcheparchy.us/archeparchy-news/metropolia-invites-you-to-make-donations-to-the-humanitarian-aid-fund-for-ukraine
Spot On Reverend Deacon!
And your a-political call for compassion merited you no thumbs up and one thumbs down. Just goes to show how un-Christian the readers of California Catholic Daily really are. Why should we follow them in any other way? The mark of a Christian lies in the answer to the question, See how they live one another? These do not love one another. They won’t feed the hungry or care for the sick.
Do you know what an Internet “troll” is?
I’m refusing to drink any more White Russian cocktails in solidarity with the people of Ukraine! I’m so proud of myself.
Cocktails, that’s a sad thing to give up this Lent. Are you self-satisfied by your pride?
As Jesus said, “And when you fast, don’t make it obvious, as the hypocrites do… I tell you the truth, that is the only reward they will ever get.”
You’re giving up vodka while Ukrainians are making Molotov cocktails to defend their homes.
Who is impressed (besides yourself)?
It is hard to believe that some of the comments here are not generated by Russian bots. It is beyond belief that any right-thinking person could bring themselves to support an unprovoked invasion of one country by another. The Russians are bombing hospitals, firing on suppose free-passage routes, using cluster bombs and 170,000 troops, hundreds of tanks, etc. How can anyone justify that behavior?
The hospital had been evacuated, and Ukrainian fighters had taken up position in the hospital to fire upon Russian forces. That’s why the Russians “bombed the hospital.”
And maybe the Ukrainians did that on purpose for propaganda points.
No, the Russians shouldn’t be attacking and invading.
But the Ukrainians are not all innocent.
Yeah, defending themselves…what thugs….
The intent (may of Russia, maybe of Satan) is to destroy the City of Mary.
Take the side of God.
Deus lo volt for the 21st century, ?
I hear Ukraine is looking for volunteers. Looking forward to your report from the front!
I don’t think you have any grasp of Russia history.
Unprovoked attacks… hmm pot calling the kettle black. Your gov’t has a vast history of the same.
Ring any bells for you? Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Spain, Mexico… CSA? And, lying about it all the time.
You and I have no idea what is really going on there right now.
flip a coin and pick your side
my fellow ignorant Americans.
But here is some fur shur life advice:
Never get in a drinking contest with a Russian.
And don’t order a Russian mail-order bride. They’ll divorce you.
Babylon Bee has a hilarious story about how restaurants are requiring proof of support for Ukraine in order to dine.
Our society is so middle school. Ukraine is just the cause-celebre de jour.
To: thatdirtylittleratnunnheim
To know so much, you must be
Real Old – like me!
Yep. Old enough to forgot to add Grenada to my list. The excuse was to rescue medical students. But really cuz Russian and Cuban advisors. Isound like anything familiar? I loathe this oily jingoism. How can anyone trust media and government experts?