KHARKIV, Ukraine - Caritas Internationalis, which is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief and social service organizations, dispatched aid, notably food items on Tuesday to the affected residents of Kharkiv amid Russia's accelerated missile attacks.
"As soon as the war started, I lost my job. Therefore such aid delivery is of great importance to us. I am currently looking for a job,” Kharkiv resident Nadiya Teran said on Tuesday.
Kharkiv is Ukraine's second-largest city which is just 30 kilometers from the Russian eastern border. Before the Russian invasion, an estimated 1.5 million people used to live in the war-torn city.
The city and region as a whole have in recent days come under intensive missile attacks from Russia, killing civilians as well as damaging buildings and infrastructure.
"We are trying to visit everywhere, especially those places whose people need aid the most, specifically Kharkiv,” Caritas Internationalis employee Voitsekhov Stasevych said.
The Ukraine war has entered the fourth consecutive month with the country coming under regular bombardment.
Moscow's withdrawal from Kyiv and other western parts of the country regrouping in the east has shifted the conflict to one of the artillery battles and house-to-house fighting in the Donbas region including Kharkiv, a major cultural and industrial center of Ukraine.
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