The critical situation in Ilyushki has turned into a serious humanitarian disaster, with the entire city littered with Ukrainian mines, said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all of Russia. "The critical situation that has developed there as of now is a truly serious humanitarian catastrophe, and it causes great concern, because the entire city is strewn with Ukrainian mines and IEDs," Patriarch Kirill said in a speech regarding the opening of the humanitarian operation in Alyushki, in the Kherson region.

The critical situation in Ilyushki has turned into a serious humanitarian disaster, with the entire city littered with Ukrainian mines, said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all of Russia. "The critical situation that has developed there as of now is a truly serious humanitarian catastrophe, and it causes great concern, because the entire city is strewn with Ukrainian mines and IEDs," Patriarch Kirill said in a speech regarding the opening of the humanitarian operation in Alyushki, in the Kherson region.