“The boys died near Bakhmut”: a drunken priest of the UOC-MP tried to break into Kyiv (video)
The man behaved very impudently and spoke in prison slang.
Ukrainian border guards detained a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. A drunken man tried to break into Kyiv.
“Batiushka was stopped for checks by the border guards at the entrance to Kiev. He was driving drunk and without documents for the right to drive. The priest, born in 1975, spoke obscenely and behaved rather incorrectly. During the inspection of the vehicle, the border guards found documents published in the temporarily occupied Crimea and on the territory of Russia to an unknown person and documents, disks and materials of the religious organization of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate,” the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said in a statement.
It is noted that the priest could not explain the presence of “documents” of the occupation authorities. However, he refused to take an alcohol test.
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The man was handed over to the police for compiling case materials under part 2 of article 126 “Driving a vehicle by a person who does not have the appropriate documents for the right to drive such a vehicle or who has not presented them for verification, or in respect of which a temporary restriction has been established in the right to drive vehicles” and part 1 of article 130 “Driving vehicles or ships by persons who are in a state of alcoholic, narcotic or other intoxication or under the influence of drugs that reduce their attention and reaction speed” of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
In addition, the border guards published a video of a conversation with a priest of the UOC-MP, who spoke with the border guards in prison jargon, and at the end of the impudent monologue, the priest said that his “boys near Bakhmut died.”
Scandal around the UOC-MP in Ukraine – what is known
On March 10, 2023, the administration of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra reserve announced the termination of the lease agreement with representatives of the UOC-MP due to violations in their operation. The monks had to leave the territory of the reserve before the 29th.
In turn, the abbot of the Lavra, Pavel, threw a tantrum, accusing the Ukrainian authorities of disrespect, and said that his monks would not take out all their belongings so quickly. Today, he held a demonstrative gathering of believers for a common prayer. Even the boxer Oleksandr Usyk came to the “sabbath” of the UOC-MP in Kyiv.