What can we learn from the war in Ukraine?

Visvaldas Kulbokas
25 September 2025, The Tablet

Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas at a prayer breakfast in Kyiv

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For the Pope’s representative in Ukraine life has become stripped to the essentials

It is very difficult for me to communicate with the “other world”, the world other people live in. We have drone attacks in Kyiv almost every night and missile attacks every couple of weeks. I find it impossible to rest if there is an attack during the night, and impossible to concentrate on work if there is an attack during the day. This world of violence and fear consumes all my time and attention.

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