A man with a poster against Phanar head detained near VR

The policemen photographing the poster taken from a man detained near the Rada. Photo: t.me/stranaua

On August 21, 2021, law enforcers detained a man near the Verkhovna Rada who was holding a poster criticizing Phanar, reports the resource Strana.ua.

The police detained a man with a poster on which it was written that "St. Andrew's Church is the property of Orthodoxy, not Satanism" and took him to the Pechersk police department of the city of Kyiv.

In the opinion of the Strana journalists, "the law enforcers received the command to deal with the posters against Bartholomew".

As reported, near the VR, the police took away posters criticizing the Phanar head from believers.

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