“Night Wolf” from Serbia delivered an icon of a martyr monk killed by Albanians to the Valaam Monastery
A member of the Serbian branch of the Night Wolves motorcycle club, retired military man Slobodan Bašić traveled 2 kilometers from Moscow to the Valaam Monastery on a motorcycle.
This was reported by the Serbian edition of Sputnik radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Slobodan Bašić, a member of the Serbian branch of the Night Wolves motorcycle club and a veteran of the 63rd parachute brigade of the Serbian Armed Forces, completed the “Serbian Warrior” motorcycle rally from Moscow to the Valaam Monastery for ten days. The motorcyclist presented the monastery with an icon of the monk-martyr Chariton, who was brutally killed by Albanian terrorists in 1999.
The Kosovo monk Chariton has not yet been officially canonized among the saints of the SOC, but is already revered by the Serbs as a saint. In 1999, he refused to remove the cross and change his faith, for which the Albanians broke his arms, legs, spine, stabbed him in the chest, and then beheaded him with a bayonet. Today his headless body rests in the Crna Reka monastery, where Bašić visited last month.
During the “night wolf” motorcycle rally, Bašić visited the Iveron Monastery in Valdai, where he prayed in front of the icon of the Mother of God brought from Kosovo and Metohija; in Borodino he paid tribute to the Russian army and Serbian generals who heroically fought Napoleon; visited the monument to General Miloradovich in St. Petersburg.
“If we Serbs have brothers anywhere, it is only in Russia. A minute ago, the president of the Russian Association of Airborne Veterans, a major by rank, exclaimed: “Kosovo is Serbia!” Don't give up Kosovo and Metohija! If necessary, we will come to protect him!” And these are not empty words. On this trip, I met a man who fought on our side in Kosovo and Metohija, and in St. Petersburg I met a soldier of the Russian Airborne Forces detachment who participated in the occupation of the Slatina airport by Russian peacekeepers (in Pristina - ed.).
Everything is intertwined - these ties between Russia and Serbia are clear and unbreakable, and if someone somewhere meets us as brothers, it is only in Russia. I see how they greet me, how they hug me - you just feel it... This is not something that can be faked, these are not politicians - these are normal, ordinary people. They love us, and this brotherly love is incredibly strong and great,” says Slobodan Bašić.
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