UOC priest holds funeral service for family killed in airstrike in Kharkiv

Funerals of the victims of a UAV strike in Kharkiv. Photo: eparchia.kharkov.ua

On 12 February 2024 in Kharkiv, the rector of the UOC Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, Archpriest Dimitri Tarasov, performed the funeral rite for the Putiatin family, who died as a result of a Russian drone attack, reports the press service of the Kharkiv Eparchy of the UOC.

Spouses Grigoriy and Olga Putiatins and their three young children got burnt in their house in Nemyshlansky district of Kharkiv on 9 February.

Their relatives, acquaintances and concerned residents of the city came to the cemetery to bid farewell to the deceased.

As reported, clergymen of the UOC honoured the victims of the missile strike on Chernihiv.

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