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Russian forces have reportedly seized a Roman Catholic church in Ukraine.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy research organization based in Washington, released an April 22 assessment stating that Viktoria Halitsina, head of the Ukrainian military administration of the port city of Berdyansk, wrote on her agency’s Telegram channel April 22 that Russian troops had seized the city’s Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The church “was not only a religious community,” but a place where “the needy could receive support, and residents and guests of the city had the opportunity to hear organ music.”

Since “the very beginning of the (Russian) occupation, the church provided shelter and help to all who needed it,” she said.