At a checkpoint near Volnovakha, Ukrainian soldiers arrested a group of Orthodox priests and monks
At the Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint “Bugas” near Volnovakha, the Ukrainian military, without explanation and using brute force, arrested a group of priests and monks of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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About it wrote on his page on the social network with the note “Everyone! Everyone! Everyone!”, UOC priest Zecharia Kerstyuk living in Kyiv, working in the International Humanitarian Mission “Mercy Without Borders”, which provides assistance to civilians in the war zone in Donbass.
“Literally just now, at the Bugas checkpoint near the town of Volnovakha. The Ukrainian military, using brute physical force, arrested:
nun Varvara (Shirolapova Tatyana), Archmandrite Nikon (Dublyazhenko Alexander), and priest Leonid Mironenko. All that Mother Varvara managed to say on the phone was that they were arrested by the Ukrainian military!!!!,” the priest wrote.
According to Kerstyuk, nun Varvara is a representative of the International Humanitarian Mission “Mercy Without Borders” in the buffer zone.
“It is she who delivers the humanitarian aid we brought to parishes, along the front line, risking her life. I’m afraid her arrest is yet another confirmation of the genocide of the people of Donbass, which has been under a humanitarian blockade since December. She, and we, have repeatedly received and continue to receive threats calling on us not to bring any more aid to civilians to the front,” writes a priest of the UOC on social networks.
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