Rodion Miroshnik, former Ambassador of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) in Moscow, said that Metropolitan of Kamenetz-Podolsky and Gorodok Theodore and other clergy of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) would be arrested if they continued to resist the Kiev authorities. they cannot raise their flocks to protect churches, they transmit TASS.
He said there have been “forced takeover attempts” in Kamenetz-Podolsky for several days.
“This is an order of the authorities and all available tools of the radicals will be used there with absolute impunity. If they continue to resist the pressure of the representatives of the regime, they will not go to the ceremony with the metropolitan city. The diplomat believes that anyone who opens his mouth is waiting for a pre-trial detention center.
According to him, “everything will be taken from them” if the UOC priests do not raise their flocks to protect their shrines.
the previous day reportedSupporters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (OCU) gathered within the walls of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kamyanets-Podilsky, demanding that “the temple community replace the UOC with the OCU.”
On April 9, believers gathered in the temple for a ritual on the occasion of Palm Sunday. The radicals came to the temple and began to carry out actions against the UOC there. informs Union of Orthodox Journalists