Priest Igor Ashcheulov, whose three sons want to serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has not been a clergyman in the Lipetsk Metropolis since 2008. This was reported in a press release on: Web site metropolis.
“Priest Igor Ashcheulov has not been a clergyman of parishes and monasteries in the Lipetsk Metropolis since 2008,” the Russian Orthodox Church said.
In the press release, it was announced that Ascheulov was removed from the staff of the metropolitan priests in 2008 for leaving the parish without permission, and when in 2012 Metropolitan Nikon of Lipetsk and Zadonsk visited the house of the Ascheulov family, no one opened their house to him. Despite the charitable nature of the mission.
Before that, the Second Western District Military Court we will evaluate A criminal case of attempted treason has been opened against the three sons of Lipetsk priest Igor Ashcheulov, who wanted to leave Russia and fight on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
First time about the Ashcheulovs I started talking This topic was covered in the media in 2007, when Igor Ashcheulov’s wife wrote a statement against him, accusing him of molesting her and their children. Ashcheulov called it “ordinary family dispute.”
Previously in Crimea carried out The sentence imposed on a man who planned to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.