In Kirovohrad region, TCC officers abducted a UOC priest
Archpriest Maxim Tsarenko. Photo: UOJ
In Kirovohrad region, TCC officers took the rector of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church parish in the village of Lupolovo, Archpriest Maxim Tsarenko. The UOJ was informed of this by the priest's parishioners.
According to them, Father Maxim was taken to the territorial recruitment center, after which contact with him was lost.
«Today, near the hospital, the TCC abducted our priest. The rector in the village of Lupolovo, Kirovohrad region, Tsarenko Maxim Grigoryevich. Please help save him! He is very ill and was receiving treatment. He wrote that he had been taken away, and now he cannot be reached», – reads the appeal received by the editorial office.
Parishioners claim that the priest has health problems and was undergoing treatment. At present, they have no information about his whereabouts or condition.
As the UOJ reported, the TCC abducted a 58-year-old UOC priest in Kalush.
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