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Ukrainian citizen kills Polish priest in knife attack at Jarosław monastery; wounded priest urges no blame on Ukrainians
On 24 September, a 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen attacked people with a knife at a Benedictine sisters' monastery in Jarosław, Poland, killing one priest and wounding four. Two days later, an injured priest, Father Adrian, led the reopened abbey's first Mass with bandaged head and hand, publicly forgiving the attacker and urging Polish faithful not to blame all Ukrainians for his actions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack as a "terrible crime," and Ukraine's ambassador to Poland said preliminary findings indicated no national motive.