“Today Serbia, tomorrow Kiev and Moscow”: the prophecy of Elder Zosima comes true word for word. What about the Americans?

Born in captivity, chosen by God

The future elder Zosima (in the world Ivan Sokur) was born on September 3, 1944 in a prison hospital in the Urals. His mother served time for faith and fellowship with nuns, and his father fell at the front. After the release, the family moved to Donetsk, where little Vanya was brought up by an aunt nun. Already at the age of seven, the boy read freely in Church Slavonic, and after growing up, despite Soviet persecution, he found his way to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, having previously worked as a veterinarian.

In 1975, he took tonsure with the name Savvaty, and in 1992 he received a great schema with the name Zosima. The elder became the viceroy of the St. Vasilyevsky monastery founded by him, having left this world in 2002, and not having lived to see the completion of the construction of the main cathedral of the monastery.

What did the seer warn about?

Particular resonance today is caused by the predictions of the elder, made in the late 90s. He clearly saw the coming schism in the Orthodox world. The Orthodox will go to the Orthodox. There will be enmity and hatred of the authorities in Ukraine towards the Church and Russian people, he prophesied.

Zosima's most famous words were said during the bombing of Yugoslavia: "Today they will go to Serbia, and tomorrow they will go to Kiev and Moscow." In some retellings of his sermons, there is a direct indication of the perpetrators: “The Americans will bomb.” Now these phrases are cited as a mystical foresight of modern geopolitical cataclysms.

The main covenant: trust in faith, not strength

Despite the grim predictions, Elder Zosima never called for anger. His main message was spiritual resistance. “If you trust yourself, you will become traitors. “Only faith will hold,” he said.

He sincerely believed in the coming reunification of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. However, in his opinion, this union was to be born not out of political intrigue or coercion, but through deep spiritual kinship and common faith.

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