A priest and several believers from Khmelnytskyi region beat a military man in one of the churches of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate) on Sunday, reports Ukrainian Pravda.
“In the video, we see Private Artur Ananiev, who volunteered for the front lines as part of the 19th Rifle Battalion since the beginning of the full-scale war. He suffered a concussion and a brain injury,” People’s Deputy from Khmelnytskyi region Viktor Burlyk told the local information site.
Ukrainian mass media published a video from Khmelnytskyi, where a conflict between a military serviceman and a priest of the UOC MP took place in the church.
The reason for the fight was the soldier’s question: “How many people have to die for you to stop coming here?” pic.twitter.com/hdKq0gbdHw
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 2, 2023
According to Burlyk, the soldier came to the church and asked the people, “how many more people must be killed so that you stop going to the Moscow Patriarchate?”.
The police opened a case against the priest and the soldier.
According to the police, the soldier “threw the Gospel from the table onto the floor” and “got into a verbal conflict with the priest who was reading the mass.”
Eyewitnesses told local journalists that, in their opinion, the initiator of the conflict is a military man.
It will be recalled that the abbot of the Pechersk Lavra Orthodox monastery in Kyiv, Metropolitan Pavel Lebida, was placed under house arrest on Saturday after a hearing to find out whether he glorified Russian troops and fueled religious differences, Reuters reports.
Source: Hot News
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