Ten torture chambers for children have been discovered in the Kherson region, four of which are in Kherson itself.
In one of the torture chambers, the russian occupiers had set up a so-called ‘children’s cell’ which consisted of nothing more than three thin foam mats on the floor.
This was announced at a press conference by Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.
“They cut with knives and burned parts of the body”
The children were given water every other day, were barely fed and subjected to psychological pressure: they were told that their parents had abandoned them.
Those who were held in these torture chambers testify that everyone knew the children were being tortured.
One boy spent 90 days in one of the torture chambers. He was cut with a knife, had parts of his body burned, and was taken out to be shot, they fired over his head.
Letos v květnu byla při raketovém útoku vážně poškozena Knihovna Jaroslava Moudrého v Kyjevě, národní knihovna Ukrajiny. Poničena byla střecha, skleněná kopule, okna, dveře i fasáda historické budovy, která je součástí ukrajinského kulturního dědictví. Knihovna nyní vyhlásila sbírku na neodkladné opravy.
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The patron saint assigned (non-canonical lol) for @princess-stefan-3cy is St. Dositheos.
St. Dositheos was a woman named Daria who was given a male's name during her monastic tonsure because she pretended to be a man in order to hide from her parents who wanted her to get married.
There was a noble family in the province of Riazan who had a daughter named Daria. When Daria was two years old, she visited her grandmother, Porphyria, in the Monastery of the Ascension in Moscow. Daria ended up staying in the monastery with her grandmother for seven years, until 1730, during which time she fell in love with the monastic way of life of asceticism and prayer.
When she returned home with her parents, they tried to educate her on the noble and high-status way of life, but her parents were constantly disappointed when they witnessed her interacting with beggars and wearing similar clothes to them. Daria would invite beggars into their home to feed and clothe them. To avoid her parents' lavish parties, she would seclude herself in her room.
This way of life for her lasted until she was 15 years old when her parents decided that she was old enough to get married. She realized her parents' intentions so she ran away from home, bought peasant clothing, cut off all her hair, and called herself the serf Dositheos.
Eventually she went to the Kiev Caves Lavra, far away from home, where she became well known as a man with great virtues and life-giving counsels. She hid in a cave and talked to people through a small hole in her door so that nobody would see her beardless face and reveal her identity as a woman.
She was officially tonsured by the request of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna who would visit her for her counsels. At some point, there was a young man named Prochoros who visited Saint Dositheos to receive her advice since he wanted to become a monk! She told him to go to Sarov to live in obedience to the abbott there, and behold, Prochoros was eventually tonsured, and himself became a saint.
Prochoros who received the blessing to become a monk from St. Dositheos became the beloved Saint Seraphim of Sarov!
By imperial decree, Dositheos eventually had to leave his cave and he wandered the streets of Kiev, acting as a fool-for-Christ.
Dositheos performed many miracles, saving many families in Kiev from the plague which ravaged the city in September 1770.
In 1776, September 26, Dositheos reposed, leaving a note to her fellow monks to give her a monk's burial without tampering with her body, without cleaning or changing her clothes. (The custom is to wrap a monk's body in a rug and bury him without a coffin.)
One day, Dositheos's sister visited Kiev and found out that monk Dositheos who had once given her counsel had reposed, and when she went to the funeral service, she recognized the face of the monastic who was about to be buried and confirmed that Monk Dositheos of Kiev was her long-lost sister Daria who had disappeared from the noble Tiapkin family in the Riazan province!
Saint Dositheos the Recluse of the Kiev Caves, please intercede on our behalf before Christ our God that he may forgive us our many sins!
