In the run-up to Victory Day, Dean of the Diocesan District of Scotland took part in the events at the memorial to Soviet pilots in Errol, Scotland

In the run-up to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, on May 7, 2025, the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Edinburgh Denis Moskalenko and the Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Dmitry Kozlovsky, a cleric of the Diocese of Sourozh, Dean of the Diocesan District of Scotland, Priest Alexander Menshikov, as well as Russian and Belorussian diplomats laid wreaths and flowers at the memorial stone erected in the Scottish town of Errol in honour of the Soviet pilots.