UOC offers memorial prayers for victims of RF attack on Ukraine, June 17
Memorial litia at the UOC Church of St. John of Damascus, Pokrovsky Monastery. Photo: KDAiS
On June 17, 2025, a memorial litia was served at the Academic Church of St. John of Damascus, located at the Pokrovsky Monastery of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Holosiiv district of Kyiv, for all those who perished in the massive Russian attack on Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv Theological Schools.
The litia for the departed was led, with the blessing of Archbishop Sylvester of Bilohorodka, Rector of KDAiS, by Archimandrite Mitrofan (Bozhko), the Academy’s Academic Secretary, together with clergy from among the professors and students.
On the night of June 17, 2025, Russian forces carried out a combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine, using air-, ground-, and sea-based weaponry. Civilian casualties were reported in Kyiv and Odesa, along with numerous injuries.
“The Kyiv Theological Schools express their heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims. May the All-Merciful Lord grant rest to the souls of the innocently slain in the dwellings of the righteous,” the Academy's press service stated.
As previously reported by the UOJ, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry also expressed his condolences over the Russian strikes on Kyiv.
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