"They will say, came with a grenade": a fighter of the Armed Forces beaten in Khmelnitsky called a statement of the UOC -MP

About it reports NV. Ananiev recalled that earlier representatives of the UOC -MP claimed that he had thrown on the floor of the Gospel, and after publication the video began to declare that he had poured him. "They said that I was not a military. When my combat brothers came, they have already started some other scheme to think," he explained, adding that there may be a further version that he was with a grenade in a state of intoxication .

The deputy of the local regional council Viktor Burlik reported that on Sunday morning, April 2, a scandal with the participation of a serviceman and a priest occurred at St. Pokrovsky Cathedral. The UOC representative attacked the Fighter of the Armed Forces, who asked how much more he should die so that the believers cease to walk in the MP church. The UOC was called the event in the cathedral provocation.

According to one of the priests Alexander Rybchynsky, when the deacon went to the department to read from the Gospel, the unknown in military uniform began to pour it with water and tried to knock out a book from his hands. After the beating of the military in Khmelnitsky, dozens of local protesters gathered near the temple, and the mayor demanded a complete ban on the UOC -MP in Ukraine.

The indignation of the masses has led to the cathedral in Khmelnitsky transferred to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Parishioners collected 1235 signatures in favor of such an initiative. Subsequently, the worship was already conducted in Ukrainian. Following the incident in the church institution at the Khmelnytsky Ministry of Internal Affairs, the search was wanted by the Holy Father of the UOC -MP (in the peace of Igor Slobodyan), who used force on a Ukrainian serviceman.