In the Donetsk region, the shell completely destroyed the temple of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt, where the service was going on: three dead

The artillery shell completely destroyed the temple of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt in the city of Kirovskoye, three parishioners died.

According to the website of the Gorlovskaya and Slavic diocese, the artillery shelling occurred during the Sunday all -night vigil at about 16:30.

"The great glory was sung when the shell broke the roof in the center of the building and brought down the overlap on praying people. The candlestick Olga Radchenko and the parishioners of Zinaida Meluga and Viktor Chernyshev died on the spot. With injuries of varying severity, the second priest of the church of the Archpriest Sergius, his wife Lyudmila, were hospitalized with trauma of varying severity. Tatyana, hope, love and love, ”the message says.

At the same time, shelling, according to the diocese, the shell was in the hospital, two people died, there are wounded.

The Archbishop of Gorlovsky and Slavic Mitrofan expressed deep condolences and prayer support to the community of the temple and the families of the dead and injured people, and all Orthodox Christians called for prayer for the repose of the deceased, the recovery of the wounded and the speedy cessation of the war and the restoration of the world on our land.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, at the Sunday worship in the Nicolo-Peshrushsky monastery near Moscow, also prayed for the victims of the projectile that had ended up in the temple. "Holy Patriarch condoing all the relatives of the dead and prays for alleviation of the suffering of the wounded. With a deep regret, we perceive the fact of the destruction of the Orthodox Church, especially since the blow was carried out during the worship," the head of the Patriarchal press service Deacon Alexander Volkov said .

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church called the hit of the shell into the temple of John of Kronstadt in the city of Kirovskoye with a "monstrous crime" and said that he did not believe in the accident. "I do not believe that a shell could be accidentally thrown into the temple. I do not believe that this could do an Orthodox person belonging to our church. But I know what anger those who do not belong to our church are puffed. And it is possible that they aimed at this temple, they aimed at all of us, in all the Historical Rus', in which they were aimed many times over the course of our history," the Patriarch said many times, "the Patriarch said many times. Cyril after the Sunday Liturgy in the Nicolo-Peshroshsky monastery near Moscow.

According to him, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate "today is the only peacekeeping force throughout Ukraine, which unites the East, the West, the North, and the South." The Patriarch called for "praying that the Lord stops this terrible bloodshed to stop trouble, to protect the Orthodox people of Eastern Ukraine and that a strong and fair world is reached as a result of negotiations."

“I am waiting for an answer from the United Nations, from the Council of Europe, from the OSCE, to which I also turned my word with a call to stop the massacre, as a result of which they kill Orthodox people,” the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized.

In 2012, the 20th anniversary of the founding of the first in the city of Kirov Church turned out. In 1992, a half -grid church was built there in honor of the Holy Righteous John of Kronstadt and since then the temple has not ceased to blame. Last year, a wooden carved iconostasis was installed in the church, the foundation of the future building of the Sunday school was laid.