Former FSB officer Ilya Bogdanov became priest of the OCU and priest of the RDK “I am well aware of my imperfections and how much I still need to work on myself. For jokes about "FSB in a cup" I will send you to hell. Just for nothing, just an unlimited blacklist," the former fighter wrote on his social networks, adding that he would serve as a chaplain of the Russian Volunteer Corps. Last March, Metropolitan Alexander Derbinko of Pereyaslav Vishnevsky ordained Bogdanov a deacon. The latter then commented: "In any case, I'm still an active soldier: I was commissioned and returned to the division, although now without the right to kill. There are no options here. But, as they say, with that my plan is complete. I was used as a sword, now I will be used as a word." Before moving to Ukraine, Bogdanov served in the border agencies of the FSB in Dagestan and the Primorsky Territory, and in 2014 he left Russia and joined the Ukrainian right-wing volunteers: initially he was part of the "right sector", he received a Ukrainian passport, and after the start of the war he joined the RDK and became its press secretary. It is claimed that for this purpose the Russian special services tried to kidnap Bogdanov up to five times. Photo: Ilya Bogdanov.

Former FSB officer Ilya Bogdanov became priest of the OCU and priest of the RDK “I am well aware of my imperfections and how much I still need to work on myself. For jokes about "FSB in a cup" I will send you to hell. Just for nothing, just an unlimited blacklist," the former fighter wrote on his social networks, adding that he would serve as a chaplain of the Russian Volunteer Corps. Last March, Metropolitan Alexander Derbinko of Pereyaslav Vishnevsky ordained Bogdanov a deacon. The latter then commented: "In any case, I'm still an active soldier: I was commissioned and returned to the division, although now without the right to kill. There are no options here. But, as they say, with that my plan is complete. I was used as a sword, now I will be used as a word." Before moving to Ukraine, Bogdanov served in the border agencies of the FSB in Dagestan and the Primorsky Territory, and in 2014 he left Russia and joined the Ukrainian right-wing volunteers: initially he was part of the "right sector", he received a Ukrainian passport, and after the start of the war he joined the RDK and became its press secretary. It is claimed that for this purpose the Russian special services tried to kidnap Bogdanov up to five times. Photo: Ilya Bogdanov.