TRC officers abduct UOC priest in Kirovohrad region
Archpriest Maksym Tsarenko. Photo: UOJ
In Kirovohrad region, TRC officers took the rector of a UOC parish in the village of Lupolovo, Archpriest Maksym Tsarenko, report 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 TRC abducted our priest. The rector in the village of Lupolovo, Kirovohrad region, Tsarenko Maksym Hryhoryevych. 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 UOJ 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 TRC abducted a 58-year-old UOC priest in Kalush.
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