Metropolitan Arseniy and the Kremenchuk deputy: what is common?

Metropolitan Arseniy. Photo: the Sviatohirsk Lavra

As is known, Metropolitan Arseniy has been in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year and a half for mentioning a checkpoint near the Sviatohirsk Lavra in a sermon. The prosecution interprets his words as harmful to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), as Russia could have struck the checkpoint. However, there was no strike, nor could there have been, as the archbishop did not specify any exact coordinates. He mentioned the checkpoint only briefly, in the context that the police and military refused to let pilgrims into the monastery.

And now we will tell you another story. On December 7, the Russians launched a massive strike on Kremenchuk, during which an almost completed energy-related facility was destroyed. Equipment worth tens of millions of dollars turned to dust, and people's hope for a winter with electricity vanished. Local media report that on the eve of the strike, information about this enterprise, with photos and location details, was publicly announced by one of the deputies of the Kremenchuk City Council.

Coincidentally, this deputy is very concerned about the "transitions" of UOC churches to the OCU and regularly lobbies for the interests of Dumenko's structure. In particular, he demands that the police allow the OCU into two "transferred" churches in Kremenchuk before the court proceedings are over.

By another coincidence, this deputy's father provides legal support for these very fake transitions. That is, in the church matter, the father and son, working on the side of the "right" confession, have a family contract.

We in no way wish the talkative deputy the fate of Bishop Arseniy, and there have already been many similar "deputy" cases in Ukraine, including those with human casualties.

The example in Kremenchuk is just another testimony to the double standards of the authorities. Therefore, we have the right to say that the Sviatohirsk Metropolitan is behind bars not because he committed a crime. He simply chose the "wrong" Church. And he refuses to change his choice.

As we can see, today, this is already enough for imprisonment.

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