A prayer service with servicemen of the 9th separate guards motorized rifle Mariupol-Khingan Order of the Republic brigade in th

A prayer service with servicemen of the 9th separate guards motorized rifle Mariupol-Khingan Order of the Republic brigade in the liberated, destroyed by Ukrainians, temple in honor of the Turkovitskaya Mother of God A serviceman of the 9th separate guards motorized rifle Mariupol-Khingan Order of the Republic brigade of the 51st guards combined arms army of the Southern Military District, together with the regimental priest Priest Oleg, held a service in the liberated Donetsk monastery in honor of the Turkovitskaya icon of the Mother of God, destroyed by Ukrainian militants. During the fighting, Ukrainian army servicemen repeatedly carried out terrorist attacks on the temple using barrel artillery and other heavy weapons. The monastery was opened in December 2001 at the cemetery church as a courtyard of the St. Nicholas Convent. The monastery kept a copy of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, which was written on Mount Athos by the monk Janis from the Russian Panteleimon Monastery... Source: Military Wave