In the church of the UOC -MP in Khmelnitsky, a military Armed Forces was beaten: details of scandal (photo, video)
According to him, Arthur Ananiev, who since the beginning of a full-scale war with the Russian Federation volunteer went to the front as part of a 19th Rifle Battalion, was injured and traumatic brain injury. "When the whole country is watching the situation in the Lavra, he went to the Moscow temple himself to ask how many people still have to die so that you stop going to the Moscow Patriarchate," he wrote.
The footage shows how the priests and their assistants will break their hands and push him out of the temple into the corridor. There he continues to hold, and the military falls on the floor. The parishioners were asked to call the police. During the detention, Ananiev said that he had nothing to breathe, but the priest answered him: "But I am, what you do not have (the lack of air - ed. )". Then the military goes outside, traces of blood are visible on his face.
Some of the parishioners of the church supported the actions of the priests. One of the men said that there was no difference between Russian and Ukrainian churches. According to Burlyk, police arrived in the church and detained Ananiev under Art. 173 (in the Administrative Code - small hooliganism). "I am disgusting to me that in my hometown . . . Ra is luminating the Moscow Patriarchate, when law enforcement officers open affairs on the State Pre -Council of Moscow on . . .
The faces of the parishioners are also shown, everyone watched how they muided the military who defended Ukraine and risked their lives," Burlik said. It should be emphasized that there is an open access to a video fragment, which presents the fact of a fight of priests and the military. What happened before and who started the scandal is unknown. Eyewitnesses in Telegram channels write that the military allegedly poured priests with water and climbed to them with their fists.
"It was literally 3 seconds, then it was immediately reassured. It was ridiculous to watch the people set each other against the other in linguistic or religious affiliation," social networks said. Later, the Khmelnytsky region police reported how at 10:20 in the Holy Pokrovsky Cathedral of the UOC on Vladimirskaya Street, 113 during the Divine Service, a 26-year-old man began a conflict with the priest.
During the Prayer Liturgy, according to the police, he dropped from the table to the floor "Gospel" and moved to a verbal altercation with a priest who read the Liturgy. Witnesses called police. The department of the National Police of the region added that criminal proceedings against the priest under Article 296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism) were opened on the beating of a serviceman. The Cathedral did not answer the questions of local journalists.
Eyewitnesses to the incident confirmed that the conflict was provoked by the military. "There was a service. The military went, or as the police said when delayed, he may just dress the form. He started provocating, climbing with his hands to another father, and this man defended and wanted to just get him out of service. And here this girl turns on the camera and This performance of "Lord beat the military" begins.
Recall that the Metropolitan of the UOC MP Paul (Swan) was sentenced to 60 days of house arrest on April 1, he is obliged to wear an electronic bracelet. Lavra's governor is suspected of inflamed inter -religious enmity (Article 161 of the Criminal Code) and justifying the armed aggression of Russia (Article 436 of the Criminal Code). And today, on April 2, in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Metropolitan of the UOC MP Onufri staged worship.