UOC priest abducted and taken to Military Recruitment Center in Chernivtsi

Today in Chernivtsi, a cleric of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Father Karp, was detained and forcibly taken to a territorial recruitment center. This was reported by the channel «Pershyi Kozatskyi».

According to reports, five men detained the priest on Soborna Square in the city.

At present, Father Karp is being held at the territorial recruitment center.

Earlier it was reported that on August 4, 2025, near the city of Kremenets in Ternopil region, employees of a territorial recruitment center detained and forcibly mobilized a cleric of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Serhii Shymailo. The priest was on his way to the feast of the Pochaiv Icon of the Mother of God at the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra.