A priest from the LPR named the target of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Rovenki: neighboring houses were bombed

Since autumn, the city near the border with Russia has been relatively peaceful, but the night attack crossed everything out.

On the night of April 23-24, the Ukrainian army attacked the city of Rovenky in the southeast of the Luhansk People’s Republic using a strike drone. What goals were seen in Kiev on the map of a small mining town located a few dozen kilometers from the border with Russia, “MK” was told by the writer and priest Alexander Avdyugin, rector of the Church of the Holy Fathers of God Joachim and Anna in Rovenki.

– Father Alexander, the city where you serve was considered relatively peaceful, rear. But the nighttime incident with the UAV crossed everything out.

We’ve been fired on four times already. Last year, the MREO building, where the police were, was completely destroyed – “Tochka-U” flew in three times.

– But then there was a lull?

– Air defense is constantly working. Maybe something else flew – but it didn’t fly, I don’t know.

– What was the approach of the drone like: what did you hear – a whistle, a rumble?

– Yes, I did not hear anything, I slept safely – and so half the city did not hear. We woke up because the alarms went off on the cars, and then not on all of them, but on those closer to the oil depot. A large oil depot at the entrance from Lugansk has been haunting the “dill” for a long time. They try to hit it – but it flies past, only the neighboring houses were bombed. In this case, they got into an almost empty tank – it burned a little and that’s it.

– Is your temple far enough away from the place of attack?

– A kilometer and a half. No one was hurt, nothing was destroyed. Everyone understands that an important oil hub will always be of interest to them. Therefore, air defense is working hard – it just slipped through once.

– Friends, neighbors – how do you feel about this event? Is anxiety on the rise?

– Of course, there is fear. But not the same as it was originally. Everyone understands perfectly. There is concern, but the city does not see much sensation in this. And in general, they began to shoot less – they, apparently, have nothing to shoot with.

– The clergyman has no right, for example, to evacuate? Have you been blessed – and you are serving?

– We have eight temples – no one escaped. Not in 2014, not in 2015, not now. In the early years, the bishops recommended that priests with large families, who have many small children, leave. They released two or three people from our deanery. And that’s how they all serve. In my chapel, which can accommodate a maximum of fifty people, there were 80 on Easter. This is always the case in mining villages, where miners’ families have to put up with danger and losses.