My experience as a military chaplain: challenges, difficulties, achievements

My experience as a military chaplain has been since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. On February 26, 2022, I called Metropolitan Volodymyr Viytyshyn and expressed that I personally wanted to do more for the army, and even become a military chaplain. This is despite the fact that I have other duties. The bishop promised that he would respond. A week later, on Thursday, March 1, I was at the diocesan administration. The bishop told me that he had a military commissar. In fact, the deputy head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional TCK and SP for work with personnel got in touch. The decree on his appointment as chaplain of the military unit A7091 and Ivano-Frankivsk city TCK and SP was issued on March 18, 2022.