Vatican sends humanitarian aid to Ukraine

The Vatican has delivered humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, including generators, medicines and food supplies, Vatican News reported on February 9.

On the instructions of Pope Leo XIV, the Dicastery for the Service of Charity dispatched three trucks carrying 80 electric generators, along with thousands of packages of medicines and food. The trucks departed from the Basilica of Saint Sophia in Rome—the Ukrainian church in Italy—and arrived in Fastiv and Kyiv. The supplies included antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, supplements and melatonin.

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, head of the Dicastery, said preparations were under way to send another truck loaded with antibiotics, antihypertensive medicines and food.

The call to support Ukraine voiced by Pope Leo XIV during the general audience on Wednesday, 4 February, has thus been translated into concrete charitable assistance in response to the “consequences of the bombings which,” as the Pope said, “have once again begun to strike energy infrastructure.”

Pope Leo XIV thanked dioceses—particularly those in Poland—for their numerous solidarity initiatives and stressed the need to step up support for Ukraine.

By Vugar Khalilov