In Ukraine, the abduction of a UOC priest by the staff of the Shopping Mall was reported

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCK, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine) abducted a priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). This was reported on June 19 by the Ukrainian TV channel "First Cossack", citing sources.

"According to sources, today (June 19. — Ed.) at 05:00 (local time, coincides with Moscow time. Rostislav Kalinovsky, a cleric of the Kamensk diocese of the UOC, was detained," the Telegram channel says.

It is specified that the priest was subsequently sent to the military medical commission. According to the channel's sources, he is currently being held in a shopping mall located in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

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On June 13, the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ) reported the abduction and forcible detention of the rector of the Trinity Church of the UOC, Archpriest Alexander Moskovchuk in the Odessa region. It was clarified that he was in the barracks of the Shopping Center, despite his age and state of health, as well as the "canonical impossibility" of participating in hostilities.