Throughout his lifetime, with the blessing of Metropolitan Tikhon of Oryol and Bolkhov, the Orthodox community of the region has been patronizing the medical company performing tasks in the Gulyai-Pole combat area. On June 23, 2026, another convoy with equipment for the construction of a permanent deployment point departed for the Zaporozhye direction. The clergy of the diocese, students of the Orel Medical College, and the trade union organization of the Moscow Directorate of High-speed Russian Railways took part in picking up the cargo.

The initiative group included Deacon Pavel

Vikulov, director of the medical college Anton Trufanov, trade union activists Ilya Morozov and Sergey Karpachev, political expert Dmitry Tsybakov.

The convoy was led by Deputy Governor of the Orel region Alexander Biryukov, Archpriest Vasily Ivanov and Abbot Tikhon (Gladkikh).

The medical unit is under the spiritual care of the Orel and Kaliningrad dioceses, whose representatives carry out pastoral ministry among wounded soldiers and military doctors.

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