Horlivka, Donbass, the Ukraine, February 13, 2015
On February 13 during artillery shelling of the Eastern Ukrainians city of Horlivka, a worker of the city’s Theophany Cathedral Sergei Vladimirovich Luchenko was killed. He was 44. He had a wife and two children, reports the Horlivka and Sloviansk Diocese’s website.
May the Lord remember His servant Sergei in His Kingdom. The diocese is asking to pray for the newly-departed!
According to the official data of the Horlivka city health department, as a result of heavy artillery shelling on February 12, the day before, two Horlivka residents were injured and four killed; among those killed were three children.
The intensive bombardments of Horlivka by artillery of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine have been taking place incessantly since mid-January. Nearly every day civilian residents of all ages become victims of these brutal shellings.
