Injured soldiers from Ukraine found shelter on Mount Athos

In his peace soldiers fled from where about three years have experienced the hell of war. These are 22 soldiers from Ukraine who sought refuge on Mount Athos and have the signs of war on them. CORVERSE One with a scar on his head, another with mutilated both legs over his knee either mentally, started with a coach from the Ukrainian city Lviv and passing a distance of 1000 km reached a monastery built on a rock on the mountain peninsula of Athos in the hope of escaping their haunted memories from the battlefield. As Reuters reports, the soldiers stayed four days on Mount Athos and bowed down to various monasteries. “Many soldiers suffer from the events that have taken place over the past three years. Many of them suffer from different diseases – they are injured and we must restore them,” said Father Mykhailo Pasirskyi, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest who accompanied the men on their journey. CORVERSE 22-year-old Ivan Kovalyk is one of the soldiers who for the rest of his life will bring to his body the signs of war after losing both his legs as he was on the front line of the battle until September 2023. Ukrainian soldiers with marks of war from a three-year conflict that has ravaged their homeland arrived at a monastery building on a Cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they homed to escape haunting memories of the battlefield — Reuters (@Reuters) “Of course he helped a lot, because he helped me drive away the anxiety,” he said of his visit to Mount Athos, which he intends to repeat. “There has always been support from relatives, from friends, brothers, support from the state, without this it would not be possible,” he said. “We already see that these five days spent on the Athos peninsula replace at least one year of rehabilitation in Ukraine, hospitals or other medical centers,” said Orest Kavetskyi, a regional Lviv official who helped organize the journey. “When I visited Athos, I felt the grace of God, the blessing of God, his greatness” concluded.