« 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 of the Moscow Special Purpose Air Group, who in 1943 took part in a secret operation to deliver British Albemarle aircraft to the Soviet Union - the website of the Consulate General of Russia in Edinburgh reports. 

Dean of the diocesan district of Scotland, priest Alexander Menshikov, who took part in the memorial events with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, served a funeral litany for the ever-memorable leaders and soldiers who gave their lives for the faith and our Fatherland on the battlefield and worked for the sake of Victory.

The memorial stone was delivered to Scotland from Russia and installed in November 2020. It is made of Shoksha quartzite, which is also used to line the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

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