Orthodox Church confers medals for volunteering on Orthodox Jews from Dnipro

During the session of Dnipro city council, chair of patriotic education and chaplaincy department of Dnipropetrovsk Diocese of the UOC-KP Father Dmytro Povorotnyy personally conferred on Hasidim Oleksandr (“Asher”) Cherkassky a medal for volunteering. It was reported by Dniprohrad.

From the onset of the antiterrorist operation Oleksandr Cherkassky, also known as “Asher”, as part of "Dnipro-1" volunteer battalion heroically defended the independence of Ukraine from Russian-backed terrorists in Donbas.

"Dnipro did not forget. I sincerely thank my brother, father Dmytro Povorotnyy of Dnipro Diocese of the UOC-KP and Bishop - Bishop Simeon of Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro for mutual cooperation and support,” Asher wrote on his Facebook page.

Earlier the Orthodox Hasidim said: "There is no atheists at war. Christians, Muslims, Jews are fighting at the frontline now. I cannot say whether there are Hasidim, I have not seen them personally. When you sit in the trenches and someone has to cover you, or there is someone you have to cover - religion does not matter.”