OSCE calls to assess raider attacks on UOC believers and police

The OSCE called to assess the attempts of radicals to seize the UOC church. A photo: www.krymr.com

The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the OSCE called on Kiev to assess the attack of radicals on the priest and the police during an attempt to seize the church in the village of Galuzintsy, Khmelnitsky region, as reported in the Mission’s Twitter account.

Earlier, the UOJ wrote that in the village of Galuzintsy of the Khmelnitsky region, during the attack on the church, the radicals beat up the priest and police.

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