Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) complains about the lack of attention of the state and business
"Today, we enjoy very little support from the outside: both the state and the Ukrainian business," he stated.
According to Drabinko, representatives of the "autocephalous wing" have no information platforms where they could "speak freely and systematically": "All we have available is a situational attention of the Ukrainian mass media," said Metropolitan Alexander.
However, he did not mention the names of the clerics who belong to the so-called "pro- autocephalous wing."
As reported earlier, on December 8, the Verkhovna Rada stripped MP from the Opposition Bloc Vadim Novinsky of parliamentary immunity due to Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko) case. The charges brought against Vadim Novinsky are based mainly on the testimony of Metropolitan Alexander, who said that he had been unlawfully deprived of freedom of movement in the winter of 2014. In turn, the former Minister of the MIA of Ukraine Vitaliy Zakharchenko and former deputy prosecutor of Kiev Maxim Lenko called a lie Drabinko’s statement that he had been unlawfully deprived of freedom, being kept locked. According to Lenko, Metropolitan himself asked him to provide protection for fear of revenge on behalf of the organizer of the abduction of nuns, the businessman Sergei But, who was a friend of Metropolitan Alexander and asked him to clarify some information from the nuns. Drabinko moved freely round the city, and in February 2014, at his request, the guards were removed.
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