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WORLD NEWS Monday 19 SepteMber 2022

Vatican envoy comes under fire as he delivers aid in

Ukraine

By JON GAMBRELL feats.
Associated Press "In the last seven days, Rus-
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A top sia has increased its target-
Vatican envoy and his en- ing of civilian infrastructure
tourage came under fire even where it probably
as they were distributing perceives no immediate
humanitarian supplies in military effect," the ministry
Ukraine, the Vatican news said in an online briefing.
service said on Sunday, but "As it faces setbacks on the
reported no injuries. front lines, Russia has likely
The incident took place extended the locations it
near the city of Zapori- is prepared to strike in an
zhzhia on Saturday and attempt to directly under-
forced Vatican Almoner mine the morale of the Unidentified graves of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers in a cem-
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski Ukrainian people and gov- etery during an exhumation in the recently retaken area of
and others to take cover. ernment." Izium, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022.
"For the first time in my life, Prosecutors in Kharkiv are Associated Press
I didn't know where to run. accusing Russia of torturing
Because it is not enough civilians in one village that using the Soviet-era radio Overnight shelling also hit a
to run, you have to know was recently freed. telephones as a power hospital in the city of Myko-
where to go," said the Pol- In an online statement, source to shock prisoners laiv, a significant Black Sea
ish-born cardinal, whose they said they found a during interrogation. port, regional governor Vi-
position makes charitable basement where Russian It was not immediately taliy Kim said. He said there
contributions in the name forces allegedly tortured possible to verify the Ukrai- was also shelling in other
of the pope. prisoners in the village of nians' claims. parts of the region, and two
Russian shelling hit cities Kozacha Lopan, near the Russian fire killed four med- people were wounded.
and towns across a wide border with Russia. ics attempting to evacuate Three people were wound-
stretch of Ukraine during In images they released, a psychiatric hospital in the ed in nighttime shelling of
the night, officials said Sun- they showed a Russian Kharkiv region on Saturday, the city of Nikopol, which
day, while the British de- military TA-57 telephone said governor Oleh Synie- is across the river from
fense ministry warned that with additional wires and hubov. Two patients were Europe's largest nuclear
Russia is likely to increase its alligator clips attached to wounded in the attack in power station, said re-
attacks on civilian targets it. Ukrainian officials have the village of Strelecha, he gional governor Valentyn
as it suffers battlefield de- accused Russian forces of said. Reznichenko.q

Spanish charity rescues 372 in central

Mediterranean; 1 dead

By PETROS KARADIJAS from an overcrowded
Associated Press barge in waters south of
ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS Malta in an nighttime op-
UNO (AP) — The Spanish eration that spanned near-
charity Open Arms has res- ly five hours before dawn
cued 372 people seeking Sunday. Those rescued said
to cross the central Medi- they had been at sea for
terranean to Europe in un- four days.
seaworthy smugglers' boats The packed boat had
and recovered the corpse been spotted by volunteer
of a man who had been pilots combing the Medi-
shot by smugglers, officials terranean for people in dis-
said Sunday. tress, and a photo showed
The rescue ship Open Arms its decks packed with peo-
Uno remained at sea and is ple waving for help.
seeking a safe port for the Before that, the Open
rescued people, including Arms rescued 59 migrants Migrants rescued by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in the Medi-
terranean sea huddle in a boat early Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022.
some who need medical from Syria, Egypt, Sudan Around 200 migrants from Syria and Africa countries were res-
attention and many who and Eritrea, among them cued by NGO Open Arms crew members.
are suffering from dehydra- 10 minors, from an oil plat- Associated Press
tion, said Laura Lanuza, an form they had reached in
Open Arms spokeswoman. international waters near with them. tional waters. They includ-
She said they have made Tunisia. Still in the flimsy They spent a day or so at ed 16 people from Syria.
at least two requests for a smugglers' boat was the sea, and kept the corpse An Associated Press pho-
safe port in Malta. wrapped body of a mi- until they were saved,'' tographer on board the
In all, the ship performed grant who had been shot Lanuza said. Open Arms said during
three rescues in 24 hours. on shore by smugglers, On Saturday morning, the each rescue, desperate
In the largest rescue, the Lanuza said. Open Arms rescued 19 people flung themselves
Open Arms picked up 294 "The smugglers forced the people from a rubber din- into the water, complicat-
people, mostly Egyptians, people to take the corpse ghy in off Libya in interna- ing the operation.q