Interview with Military Chaplain Dmitro Povorotnyi, Conducted in Kyiv, 1 August 2018 (UKR)

Dmitro Povorotnyi was born in 1971 Dnepropetrovsk. He is a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and the head of the department of patriotic education and chaplaincy of the Dnepropetrovsk Eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Povorotnyi served in the Soviet army, at the age of 30 he came to the church. After receiving his education at the Dnepropetrovsk Theological Seminary, Povorotnyi was ordained a deacon in 2002 and a priest in 2013 and has been serving as a chaplain since March 2014. He has worked with combatants of the 20th Territorial Defense Battalion, the Dnepr-1 Regiment, the 39th Territorial Defense Battalion, the 93rd Independent Mechanized Brigade, the 74th Independent Reconnaissance Battalion, and the 30th Mechanized Brigade. Military Chaplain, Russian-Ukrainian War, Anti-Terrorist Operation, Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine, Front, Orthodox Church of Ukraine