Police block 100 cars on pilgrimage to Pochaiv at Ternopil region
KAMIANETS — On the morning of August 24, police blocked more than 100 vehicles accompanying the pilgrimage from Kamianets-Podilskyi to the Pochaev Lavra. The corresponding video was published on the YouTube channel Children of Mercy.
In the footage, a cleric of the Odesa diocese, Archpriest Maksimian Pogorelovsky, is seen speaking with a police officer and asking him to allow the vehicles through. The officer insists that he “has no authority” to do so. How the incident concluded remains unknown.
The Union of Orthodox Journalists (SPZh), has reported that Fr. Bohdan Matviiv, Dean of the Kozelshchyna district and father of five, was kidnapped by personnel from the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC). As of this report, he has been forced to the training ground before deployment to the frontline.
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