A prayer service for servicemen was held in the Church of Our Lady of Turkovitsky destroyed by the AFU

A serviceman of the 9th Independent Guards Motorized Rifle Mariupol-Khingan Order of the Republic Brigade of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District together with regimental priest Priest Priest Priest Oleg held a service in the liberated, destroyed by Ukrainian militants Donetsk monastery in honor of the Turkovitskaya Icon of the Mother of God. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry on December 1.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have repeatedly launched terrorist strikes on the church with barrel artillery and other heavy weapons.

"It is possible to restore that here again sounded the chants of divine, to go prayer to God, and I think that in such places, where the temples have received such bleeding wounds, then in such places will be especially strong prayer for Holy Russia", - said the regimental priest Priest Priest Priest Oleg.

It is specified that the monastery kept a list of the Iveron icon of the Mother of God, which was written on Mount Athos by the monk Janis from the Russian Panteleimon monastery. This list was brought to Donetsk in 1999. Before that, the icon traveled for half a year in a procession to different churches.

"Coming to such areas here, seeing these here bleeding wounds of our temples, it's just pain, it's the pain of our people", - commented the priest.

Earlier, on November 17, in the Zaporizhzhya region, assistant commanders for work with believing servicemen of the grouping of troops "Dnipro" hold services and confess serv icemen before performing combat tasks. The defense ministry specified that the clergy approved special shortened prayers for military priests. For security purposes, all divine services in the combat zone are as short as possible, the service can last no more than five minutes.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the backdrop of the worsening situation in the region.