Former Schema-Abbot Sergiy, who seized the Sredneuralsk Convent in June 2020, asked for a pardon and said he was ready to go to war in Ukraine
Former schema-abbot of the Sredneuralsk women's monastery, Father Sergius (Nikolai Romanov), asked Vladimir Putin for a pardon. The text of the appeal was published by %C2%BB.) URA.ru. In his address, the former schema-abbot reported that he had helped in the construction of 20 churches and five monasteries in the Sverdlovsk region, and that since 2014 he had brought families with children from the war zone in Ukraine.