Indicated whom to kill: priest of the UOC -MP from Lisichansk was a spy of occupiers - NYT

According to journalists, Andriy Pavlenko visited the wounded Ukrainian soldiers at the hospital and then transmitted information about them to his Russian curators. The priest also created for the occupiers "shooting lists".

The abbot of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC -MP) Andriy Pavlenko, whom Ukraine exchanged in December 2022 for the US citizen captured by Russian invaders, indicated to the Russian military, whom the priests of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU) should be killed. About it reports The New York Times.

The media writes that with the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine, Pavlenko remained with his flock in Lisichansk and even visited the hospital to allegedly pray with wounded soldiers. But in fact, according to court protocols, Andriy Pavlenko cooperated with the Russian military. He actually participated in the killings of Ukrainian soldiers and activists. Including the CCCU clergy.

In particular, the publication published extracts from correspondence of the abbot with its curators from the Russian Federation. "In the north (Ukrainian soldiers, ed. ) There are about 500, with a mortar platoon, five armored personnel carriers and three tanks," - wrote a priest to a Russian officer in March 2022, when the Russian army fired at Severodonetsk. In addition, Andrey Pavlenko visited the wounded Ukrainian soldiers at the hospital.

The locals saw after such visits the priest walked the street and spoke with someone on a mobile phone. Pavlenko also made lists of those people who, in his opinion, had to be killed for the Russian invaders. "The spiritual mentor of nationalist detachments and the Ukrainian army in the Luhansk region," Pavlenko said in a note of the Russian military from March 15. The pro -Russian abbot insisted that this priest should be killed.

In another note to the Russian curators, Pavlenko wrote about another clergyman of the PCU, whose native brother performed combat missions at the front at that time. "I think we need to end with him because he is not our boyfriend," the note said. We will remind, on December 14, 2022 Ukraine exchanged a pro -Russian priest for a US citizen. The clergyman was sentenced to 12 years in prison for giving the Russian military position of the Armed Forces.