Timothy Cardinal Dolan makes surprise visit to Ukraine

Cardinal Timothy Dolan made a shock go to to Ukraine on Monday.

The Catholic archbishop of New York posted a video to Twitter from Lviv in western Ukraine.

“We didn’t know for certain if we’d be capable to get right here, however — thanks be to God — we had been in a position to depart Poland yesterday and are available right here to Ukraine,” stated Dolan, who has been touring refugee and help amenities in neighboring Poland and Slovakia.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on a shock go to to Liviv, Ukraine.

Dolan had been touring refugee and help amenities in Poland and Slovakia earlier than crossing the border into Ukraine.

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Dolan assembly with Ukrainians who had been displace by the Russian invasion.

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Whereas in Ukraine, Dolan stated, he has met with a number of internally displaced Ukrainians, together with a 94-year-old girl from the Donbas area and a household that fled Mariupol.

The United Nations estimates about 7.7 million folks have been displaced inside Ukraine by the preventing.

Alongside video exhibiting pallets of donated contemporary water, Dolan beseeched his social-media followers to proceed donating items and cash to reduction efforts in Ukraine.

Dolan talking with a aged Ukrainian girl throughout his go to.

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Dolan urged his social media followers to proceed donating to Ukrainian reduction efforts.

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“I've to cross it on to you, as a result of I’ve heard it time and again,” he tweeted. ” ‘Inform the parents of the US how grateful we're for his or her assist.’ “