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  25 Mar 2022, 17:43

Russian military chaplain killed by rocket near Ukraine border: church

 MOSCOW, March 25, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - A Russian military chaplain has been

killed by a Ukrainian rocket attack in southwestern Russia close to the
border with Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church said on Friday.

Oleg Artyomov was in the village of Zhuravlyovka in Russia's Belgorod region
when he "came under shelling from a Ukrainian Smerch (rocket launcher) and
died" on Thursday, the Moscow Patriarchate's military department said on
social media.