Police sabotaging investigation against OCU cleric Hryshchuk

Roman Hryshchuk. Photo: Facebook

Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church have filed a lawsuit against OCU representative Roman Hryshchuk, but the police have yet to respond, according to Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra lawyer, Priest Nikita Chekman.

In one of his Facebook posts, OCU “priest” Hryshchuk wrote: “The UOC are occupiers. A branch of the Russian Orthodox Church under cover. A hybrid Putin army, sabotage groups, a propaganda machine: 100 generals, 9,000 officers, 100,000 rank-and-file soldiers, and a million sincerely and naively believing women, elderly, and children, whom they push forward as a human shield!”

According to him, the UOC has “clear and effective tasks: to demotivate the enemy (us) from resisting, to denazify (strip of identity), to impose enemy narratives, to scout and transmit data, to identify and compile lists of patriots, to sow despair and doubt about the need to resist occupation, to present the occupying power as God-given, and to raise new cannon fodder for the orcs.”

Archpriest Nikita Chekman reported that outraged UOC believers filed a complaint with law enforcement on February 10, accusing Hryshchuk of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (incitement of hatred).

However, to date, investigative authorities have not entered the information into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations.

As a result, on February 13, a complaint was filed in court regarding the inaction of the investigation.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that Hryshchuk assured that he is mentally healthy.

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