The Kiev Military has released 2 of the three clerics arrested
The Kiev Military has freed captured their priest and a nun of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, said press Secretary of the Donetsk diocese of the UOC-MP, Protopriest Georgy Gulyaev.
"Three people, seized on Ukrainian checkpoint, released two - mother Barbara and the priest Leonid. To him at the police Department claims no ", - quotes its words " Donetsk news Agency ". On Wednesday, the Ombudsman DND Daria Morozova said about the detention of priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. According to her, they were accused of " aiding and abetting a terrorist organization ". Thus, the Fund "Mercy without borders" told that the detainees nun Varvara (Tatiana Shirolapova), Archimandrite Nikon (Alexander Dublagem) and the priest Mironenko, Leonid was engaged in the distribution of humanitarian assistance. The Fund has called the actions of the security forces " act fear-mongering volunteer humanitarian mission ". In Ukraine continued harassment from the authorities and the attack of the radicals on the commissioners of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. So, in July were killed in Ukraine cleric of the Kyivan Metropolitanate, the priest of the Roman Nikolaev and the novice of ascension Florovsky monastery, the nun Alevtina.
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