Fr. Victor slipped out through the window “like a fish” together with the commander of “Cedar’s” headquarters platoon. And he came to us in Semenovka for the soldier’s spiritual sustenance, so that they would know that “the soldier is also a monastic, but wages not an inner war with the spirits of evil, but an outer one.” This conversation occurred in the last days of May, long before the withdrawal of militia forces from Slavyansk. Fr. Victor requested that we not publish this interview “until a large plane crashes, after which everything will change, and the war will become unlike any previous one.” The plane crashed, and everything is rapidly changing…MORE