Who knows the pity and sorrow of the Mother of God, our sorrowful intercessor!

Putin's Patriarch Cyril celebrated this past Sunday in the Russian Military Cathedral,

infamous for its "steam-punk" design, and pro-war Soviet symbolism.

"Mothers wail:

- We do not cry for ourselves, but only that our sons be spared.

Fathers mourn:

- recalling past hopes, no longer believing their sons will return.

Wives tear their hair:

- in anguish for their husbands.

In Alexandria and in Syria the same words of prayer rise to heaven,

- prayers for mercy and prayers for victory.

But heaven remained unmoved." - Aleksey Remizov

We cannot be indifferent.

 The bodies of village mayor Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie in pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A lifeless body of a man with his hands tied behind his back lies on the ground in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)