Medical unit created at the Military Department of UOC

Archpriest Viacheslav Yakovenko. Photo: a video screenshot of the YouTube channel "Military Clergy of the UOC"

Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Military Department of the UOC, Archpriest Viacheslav Yakovenko, said that with the blessing of His Beatitude Onuphry a medical unit was created at the Military Department.

The statement was published on the YouTube channel "Military Clergy of the UOC".

"Today the military clergy and volunteers of the Hetman Petro Kalnyshevsky Foundation summed up the results of our training, our labours to save our defenders in the combat zone. This is a very important mission. Thanks to His Beatitude for blessing us for these labours, for blessing ambulances for wounded military men," Father Viacheslav noted.

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