As a result of the shelling of Donetsk, the oldest protodeacon of the Donetsk diocese Alexander Tkachenko was mortally wounded. At night he died. This was announced by Archpriest Alexander Namokonov.
The incident happened near the priest’s house.
In the 1990s, the protodeacon served as choir director of the choir of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Donetsk. The people around spoke of Tkachenko as an open, kind and completely harmless person.
