Since the beginning of the full-scale war, waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in February 2022, the seminary, in addition to its educational activities, has launched a large-scale relief ministry, ranging from evacuating people from the frontline, delivering food and necessities to basements and/or bomb shelters, distributing food and necessities in liberated areas and warzone, feeding the needy, supporting churches where students and graduates of the seminary are serving war victims, etc.

In the first years of the war, one of the main directions of our relief ministry was feeding those in need on the seminary campus and delivering hot meals to war-affected areas. At some periods, more than 5 000 hot meals were served a month. It was a good opportunity to meet not only physical, but also spiritual needs of those in need as the faculty and staff provided comfort, encouragement and pastoral care to them. In addition to our on- and off- campus feeding program, we directed our efforts at helping people live through difficult wartime winters, in particular power outages and blackouts caused by repeated mass missile and drone attacks hitting civilian infrastructure, mostly power stations and other national grid facilities, in an attempt to leave Ukrainians cold and dark. Therefore, we started buying and providing people with winter-related things such as power generators, bed linens, blankets, charging stations, power banks, autonomous lights, metal wood stoves, fire wood, heaters, etc. For many recipients of the assistance, among whom the elderly and lonely mothers predominated, life without electricity, water and heating was a matter of survival.