Polish Cardinal Konrad KrajewskiSince August 3, 2013, he has been serving as a papal defender, He escaped unharmed from an armed attack in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.where he went last week on behalf of the Pope to bring comfort and humanitarian aid to the people.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run.…because running isn’t enough, you have to know where it is,” Krajewski told Vatican News after the discussion.
Polish cardinal, tasked with doing charity work on behalf of the Pope, traveling around the country in a minibus accompanied by two other bishopsby a Catholic and a Protestant, and also by a soldier.
According to the Vatican News account, they made a second stop to deliver food in the city of Zaporizhia, where Europe’s largest nuclear power plant was located in southern Ukraine at the time of their shooting.
“At the second of the planned stops, The group was met with gunfire and the cardinal had to flee for safety with the others.“, as described in the news published by Vatican News.
In the published photos, the Polish cardinal wears a bulletproof vest and carries in bags the food he distributed to the Ukrainian population. It is his fourth trip to this country.
On his last trip to Ukraine, Krajewski got a medical ambulance He said he had left the country to care for the wounded, as he had done ten days earlier. In mid-March, the Polish cardinal arrived in the Ukrainian city of Lviv (Leopolis) in the west of the country to launch a humanitarian operation in the region.
The Pope several times showed his intention to travel to Ukraine. However, he assured in an interview that the doctor had advised him not to travel to Kiev or Moscow, at least until he went to Kazakhstan.