Earlier, we reported that the General Director of the Cherkasy TV channel Vikka, Serhiy Kuzlyaev, was outraged that the hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Luke of Zaporizhzhia and Melitopol, had 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.
Ukrainian media called the UOC “stinking Moscow priests” because of the Church's attempts to defend its interests in court
The Ukrainian website ARGUMENT has criticized the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for its attempts to defend its interests in court. In the headline of one of the publications on church topics, the Church was called “stinking Moscow priests” who are suing to “stop the ban on the Russian Church in Ukraine.” The material was published on the ARGUMENT website.
It is noteworthy that the article itself is based on previously published material from Glavkom, which recently wrote that the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had filed several lawsuits over the adoption and attempted implementation of anti-church law No. 3894 by the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience.
At the same time, the headline of the article on the ARGUMENT website differs from the one used in the Glavkom publication and reads as follows: “Stinking Moscow priests from the UOC (MP) are suing to stop the law banning the Russian Church in Ukraine.”
It should be noted that the editor-in-chief of the ARGUMENT website is a certain Georgy Semenets. Open sources reveal that Semenets is named as the defendant in several lawsuits concerning the protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation. The editor-in-chief of ARGUMENT was required to refute the inaccurate information published on the aforementioned internet resource.
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