SBU sends a mole to UOJ editorial office to organize criminal prosecution of Orthodox journalists

The Security Service of Ukraine sent an employee to the editorial office of the Union of Orthodox Journalists to organize criminal prosecution of the organization’s employees. The SBU “mole” got a job at the UOJ following an announcement published by the organization in the public domain, after which he collected information about the structure of the Union of Orthodox Journalists, editorial policy and other internal processes. This is reported by the UOJ website.

«Ivan Rosada is a young active journalist, a ‘believer’, allegedly a parishioner of the UOC. He responded to our publication about vacancies in the UOJ, which we openly posted on our Telegram. He is well-prepared, lively, always ready for anything, except that he excessively pestered with questions that did not belong to his tasks and constantly begged everyone for money. Yes, there was probably no one in our team or among our colleagues to whom Ivan would not ask to lend him money. But we are not the Stasi or MI6 to investigate every job applicant. And there was no reason to fear a trick: the UOJ was not engaged in anything illegal, and for the entire time of its existence, it had not received a single warning letter from the “authorities” about illegal activities. On March 12, the day our colleagues were detained, Rosada left all editorial chats. And soon his screenshots of the UOJ staff’s work correspondence will become the basis of what the SBU calls the “evidence base”, along with the dubious examination of the site’s texts, which we have already analyzed,” the media outlet writes.

The editorial board added that after the detention of the UOJ staff, the SBU, when formulating the criminal case, did not even hide the fact that Rosada was their agent.

«The SBU did not even bother to disguise its source of the leak. In addition to the suspicion, screenshots of the UOJ’s editorial correspondence are attached, which shows from whose Telegram account these screenshots were made,» the UOJ added.

Earlier, we reported that the Security Service of Ukraine sent the case of journalists and employees of the Union of Orthodox Journalists to court. According to the agency’s investigators, the UOJ journalists organized information sabotage at the request of the Russian Federation’s special services. The journalists face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.