A police officer openly declaring hatred of UOC found on social network

Vladimir Lysehko in the uniform of a National Police officer in the church of the OCU. Photo: published on the page of Fr. Feognost Pushkov on Facebook a screenshot of a post by Vladimir Lysenko

The Facebook social network drew attention to the page of a police officer from Zhmerynka, Vinnytsia region, who openly declares hatred of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The priest of the UOC Feognost Pushkov wrote about this on his page in the social network.

He said that the user Vladimir Lysenko was added to his friends, who in publications with access only for friends writes threats to the UOC with the words: "Oh, I'll tackle you, a Moscow bitch ... once there is the right time." Lysehko indicated OCU as his place of employment, but on May 19 he published a photo in the uniform of an employee of the National Police of Ukraine and wrote that during the service he finds time to “spend in an OCU temple”, as well as writes insults toward the UOC with the words: “SBU is going to ‘take care’ of all of you soon."

“Everything would be fine but for the fact that this fellow is an employee of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and has a weapon. I believe that it is impossible to keep silent about such cases, because we are facing a real threat. He is inadequate, perhaps mentally unhealthy, with a weapon and hatred of his fellow citizens,” wrote Father Feognost and tagged in his publication the Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov and the head of the National Police Igor Klimenko with a request to pay attention to this case.

As reported by the UOJ, the police are investigating the call to "purge the monasteries" of the UOC of the adviser to the mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk. 

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