The director of the VIKKA TV channel was outraged that Metropolitan Luke filed a lawsuit against the media for spreading lies against him

The general director of the Cherkasy TV channel Vikka, Sergey Kuzlyaev, is outraged that the hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol, filed a lawsuit against the media for spreading false information about the bishop on one of their TV programs. Kuzlyaev is annoyed that the UOC hierarch is “raising his head” in an attempt to defend his honor and dignity in court. This was reported by the Institute of Mass Information.

It is reported that Metropolitan Luke filed a lawsuit to protect his honor, dignity and business reputation. He demands a refutation of the false information that was broadcast during the program “Topical Discussion” in December 2024. The Metropolitan also insists on compensation of one million hryvnias. At that time, the mayor of Cherkasy, Anatoly Bondarenko, claimed that the hierarch was “working for the enemy,” which was not proved either on the air of the TV program or afterwards.

“It was then that Cherkasy Mayor Anatoly Bondarenko, expressing his position on the Moscow Church in Ukraine, said that the Metropolitan of Zaporizhzhia was working for the enemy. But this is not the point of Anatoly Bondarenko’s statements. The problem is different. Clerics of the Moscow Church are beginning to raise their heads,” – Kuzlyaev said.

Earlier, we reported that the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv found unreliable the information about “sexual intimacy” between a cleric of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Diocese of the UOC, Archimandrite Mykyta (now Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia) and a minor, which was disseminated on her telegram channel by a well-known Ukrainian journalist and lobbyist for the OCU, editor-in-chief of the publication “Left Bank” Sonya Koshkina. During the trial, the journalist was found guilty of lying and ordered to pay 20 thousand hryvnias in moral compensation to the victim.