Earlier, we reported that a volunteer from Lutsk, Serhiy Tymchuk, called for a religious purge of the clergy and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the region. Tymchuk believes that if the Russian army came to Volyn, the Russian military would massacre “Ukrainian priests” (obviously, referring to representatives of the OCU – ed.). In addition, on August 24, 2024, Tymchuk, together with his accomplice, disrupted the service at the Peter and Paul Monastery of the UOC in the village of Svityaz, Volyn region, where they broke in during the Liturgy and began to harass the believers demanding that they leave the UOC and join the OCU.
Volyn MP calls on law enforcement to “re-educate” UOC priests
Volyn regional council deputy Andriy Bokoch, who regularly advocates for the ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the region, called on law enforcement agencies to hold preventive conversations with UOC priests. Bokoch claims that conflict situations often arise in the Volyn region because of representatives of the UOC. This is reported by the regional publication Volyn News.
“There is a significant moral and psychological pressure on the part of the priests of the Moscow Patriarchate and their supporters on citizens. Relatives and friends of the military often suffer when they raise the issue of religious communities’ transition to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. I ask you to work with the leaders and clergy of the UOC-MP to prevent cases of various forms of violence against representatives of religious communities of the OCU,” – the MP said.
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