Mayor of Netishyn, who incited hatred to UOC believers, handed a suspicion
The mayor of Netishyn Oleksandr Supruniuk awarded OCU representatives after the seizure of an UOC temple. Photo: t.me/lavralive
The mayor of the town of Netishyn in the Khmelnytskyi region, Oleksandr Supruniuk, who actively participated in the seizures of UOC churches, has received the status of a suspect. As the official himself reported on Facebook, he is accused of negligence in the purchase of drones for the military.
The media noted that the drones purchased by the executive Committee of the Netishyn Town Council at the request of Supruniuk for more than 20 million UAH, had components much cheaper than declared, than the budget suffered damage of more than 6 million UAH.
The rector of St Paraskeva’s Church of the UOC Archpriest Roman Tyshkun commented on Supruniuk's activities in April 2023, a few months before the raider seizure of the shrine, as well as the Cathedral of the “Unburnt Bush” Icon of the Mother of God: “The mud that is poured from the lips of the mayor, regarding the belonging of us, as a religious organization to the aggressor country, is an outright lie.’
“I am surprised by the mayor's stance on other problems in the town, because it seems that we have no other problems but only problems on the religious issue,” Father Roman said.
He suggested that “perhaps, for this very reason, in order to turn attention away from real problems, the authorities ‘unleash all the dogs’ on the parishioners of the UOC’. He recalled that “at the time of the coronavirus, the mayor of the town called the UOC believers a ‘biological weapon’, which made him ‘famous’ throughout Ukraine.”
After the seizure of the Cathedral of the “Unburnt Bush” Icon of the Mother of God by representatives of the OCU, Oleksandr Supruniuk congratulated on the “victory on the ideological front” and posted a photo of a UOC clergyman leaving the cathedral with a bag of books.
As the UOJ wrote, the official who supervised the demolition of the Tithe Monastery fled abroad.
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