Internal documents and foreign passports: the head of the UOC -MP has Russian citizenship - investigation (video)
Investigators were accessed to the Rospasport system and found that Orest Vladimirovich (Onufri) has Russian citizenship at least from March 20, 2002. In addition, Onufri changed his foreign passport twice: this document was published in 2003 and 1998. This means that the Russian citizen Berezovsky became much earlier in 1998. Also citizen of the Russian Federation is the bishop of the UOC -MP and the governor of the Tithe Monastery Gideon (in the world - Yuri Samuilovich Charon).
In 2019 he received a Russian passport. And in 2020 he made himself two foreign passports. Gideon, according to media, also served in Kazan (Russian Federation) in February 2023. During his sermon, he expressed support for the Russian invaders. It has a passport of the Russian Federation and the former Metropolitan Izyumsky Elysey (Oleg Ivanov). His husband received already in Belgorod, where he left after the de -occupation of Kharkiv region.
It should be noted that, according to investigators, Russian citizenship also should: Recall that in early January 2023 it became known that President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky suspended Ukrainian citizenship 13 priests of the UOC -MP. According to journalistic sources, it is about 13 representatives of the church. Among them, according to the media, is Metropolitan Tulchinsky and Bratslav Ionafan, whom the Security Service of Ukraine suspects a state treason.