Speaker of the AFU General Staff: Special services banned fundraising for Metropolitan Pavel

July 18, 2023 the speaker of the General Staff of the AFU Andrei Kovalev said that «some special services» held «patriotic conversations» with people who initiated fundraising to pay bail for the vicar of Lavra. About this he said on the air of Channel 5.

Thus the former press Secretary of the UOC-KP commented on his publication in Facebook about boxes for donations to pay the bail.

According to Kovalyov, «the ideological adherents of the MP throw money there, but I am not sure that they will be able to collect 33 million hryvnias, which are declared for bail for citizen Lebed».

He also reported that his post in social networks «was seen by some special services,» whose representatives «had patriotic conversations with MP figures, and in a few hours these bail placards for Metropolitan Pavel were removed from the boxes and these circuses stopped.»