Provocations by OCU Clergy at Military Funerals
Provocations by OCU Activists and Clergy at Funerals of Ukrainian Armed Forces Servicemembers
Over the years of the war, provocations by OCU activists and clergy at funeral services for Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemembers have become a systematic strategy.
Its goal is to manufacture manipulative imagery and incite hatred against Orthodox Christians in order to facilitate the subsequent seizure of UOC churches.
Both OCU activists and state media outlets — which spread false information to harass believers — are part of this strategy.
The standard provocation scheme works as follows:
OCU clergy arrange with the family of a fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemember to conduct a funeral service;
On the day of the service, they deliberately lead the procession to the local UOC church and demand to be let inside;
The church communities, rightly fearing a subsequent raider seizure of the church, refuse to allow the OCU clergy into their church;
OCU clergy then actively spread false information claiming that "UOC believers and priests refused to perform a funeral service for the fallen soldier";
The information is spread through state-controlled media, stoking harassment and inciting people to reprisals;
Later, OCU clergy initiate a territorial community assembly in the locality, with the aim of falsifying documents for the local UOC church.
In parallel, a myth is being entrenched in Ukrainian society that UOC believers and clergy refuse to perform funeral services for the families of fallen soldiers.
On March 7, 2023, a scandal erupted in the village of Zadubrovka surrounding the funeral service for two fellow servicemembers killed near Bakhmut.
The Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Diocese of the UOC reported that the soldier Viktor, a UOC faithful, had visited his home village shortly before his death and expressed his wish that, in the event of his death, he wanted to be buried not inside the church but in the churchyard. This was connected to the difficult situation surrounding the church in Zadubrovka, where in February the UOC community marked four years of prayer vigil in defense of the church against ecclesiastical raiding. Viktor did not want to provoke a new scandal or manipulation.
He was killed in the course of fierce fighting near Bakhmut. In doing so, he attempted to save his fellow soldier Vasyl, an OCU member, from a shell — shielding him with his own body in the trench.
Viktor's parents were forced to find transport for the delivery of their son's remains themselves, as an OCU military chaplain and the Chernivtsi military enlistment office both refused to provide transportation. The reason given was that there was no room in the vehicle for the hero.
Viktor was given a funeral service in the churchyard, in accordance with his last wish. His relatives are deeply hurt by OCU supporters, who humiliated them, including on account of their fidelity to the UOC. According to Protopriest Vitaliy Durov, when the funeral service for Viktor's fellow soldier Vitaliy was also conducted in the churchyard, "the OCU said many unkind words, spoke about how wrong our Church is, about how we did not bring him [Vitaliy — ed.] into the church, and even accused me of closing the doors in front of them and refusing to let them into the church." Similar information appeared in the media, in which OCU representatives blamed Protopriest Vitaliy Durov for everything.
The mother of the fallen Viktor spoke about the situation in the village and asked that people stop mocking the soldier's memory and cease manipulating his death.
On April 5, 2023, OCU supporters seized the Church of the Assembly of Archangel Michael in the village of Zadubrovka.
This happened in the middle of the funeral of a soldier killed at the front.
By agreement between the communities of the two confessions, OCU "priests" were conducting a "funeral service" in front of the church.
A group of raiders in balaclavas cut through the side door of the church leading to the altar and burst inside carrying a red-and-black flag. During the seizure, OCU supporters beat parishioners. Police, called by UOC believers, did not arrive.
Protopriest Vitaliy Durov, rector of the church in the village of Zadubrovka, Chernivtsi region, which was seized by raiders, rejected the accusation that the UOC community had allegedly refused to allow a funeral service for the fallen soldier to be held in the church.
The priest recalled that for more than four years the village had been the site of a standoff between UOC believers and the OCU community, which had been attempting to take possession of the Church of the Assembly of Holy Archangel Michael. To avoid escalation, an agreement had been reached to conduct funeral services for all the deceased at their homes, and when the bodies of fallen soldiers began to arrive from the front, the two communities agreed to hold funeral services in the churchyard.
"The information claiming that we allegedly did not allow the hero's body to be brought into the church is, to put it mildly, not consistent with reality," noted Father Vitaliy. "No one approached us at all with a question about where to bury him, whether to bring him into the church or not. Only yesterday someone from the village council called and asked whether the agreement to hold the funeral service outside was still in place. That is why we were all very surprised when, during the funeral, people began demanding that we open the church and accusing us of not wanting to do so."
The rector emphasized that UOC believers "treat all defenders of Ukraine with respect and honor."
"We bow our heads before everyone who, in the words of the Gospel, 'laid down his life for his friends' — before those who today defend our mother Ukraine from a war of aggression, from Russia's aggression, which has brazenly come to our land. Today we help all our soldiers, we help displaced persons, we love our Homeland and believe in it. And we are greatly saddened that, because of a provocation staged purely for the purpose of seizing our church, the relatives, loved ones, and all the people who gathered for the funeral of the fallen soldier Ioan were made to suffer," said the priest.
On April 19, 2023, in the village of Hilcha, OCU supporters cut the locks off the door of the UOC St. Nicholas Church and seized it.
UOC believers came to defend the church, but law enforcement officers, who had positioned themselves between the raiders and the UOC religious community members, prevented them from doing so.
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Eyewitnesses report that there were only a few church raiders — several women and intoxicated men. The perpetrators came to the church seizure prepared, arriving with tools and a specialist, Oleksandr Krotyuk, who swiftly carried out the plan.
Villagers report that the trigger for the church seizure was news of the funeral of Ukrainian defender Bohdan Shvaia, who was to be given a funeral service by UOC priests.
"The mother of the fallen soldier came to my home to discuss the details of the funeral; when she left to go home, she was caught up by people from the OCU who began urging her to have her son buried through the OCU," recounted Archimandrite Herman Kulakevych, rector of St. Nicholas Church. "The mother called later and told me about it. I believe that today no one has the right to torment women who are crushed by grief, and even less so to impose their religious convictions on them."
The instigators of the pressure on the mother of the fallen soldier were two women: Kateryna Tyshkovets, a deputy from the "European Solidarity" party, and local OCU activist Olha Shevchuk. After they failed to convince the mother to have the servicemember buried through the OCU, these two women stirred up a portion of the local residents and led them to cut the locks on the St. Nicholas Church.
(Source: Rivne Diocese of the UOC)
On October 31, 2023, during the funeral service for a fallen soldier, OCU cleric Roman Hryshchuk entered the UOC Dormition Church in the village of Shebutyntsi and began instructing the rector to open the Royal Doors, remove the covering from the altar table, and so forth.
He then delivered a speech in which approximately 20% was devoted to the deceased, while the remainder was spent speaking about the "Russian world," "Moscow priests," and the history of Ukraine. In addition, Hryshchuk attempted to provoke the church rector into a conflict through provocative questions.
The press service of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Diocese of the UOC recalled that "it was this very chaplain from whom a female resident of the village of Kamenka took the microphone, because in the villages that Mr. Roman visits repeatedly, people have already run out of patience for listening to his insults and political agitation."
On November 17, 2023, the parishioners and rector of the Dormition Church recorded a video address in which they declared their patriotic position and their fidelity to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
"We bear witness that we are all Ukrainians, that we condemn Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and that we acknowledge that Russia under Putin's leadership attacked Ukraine," declared Protopriest Petro Tkachyshyn, rector of the church, on behalf of the community. "We always pray for peace in our Ukrainian state, for the victory of our Ukrainian armed forces, and we always pray for all the soldiers who today defend our Fatherland. We also pray for all the fallen and ask God that the Lord receive their souls into the Heavenly Kingdom, where there is no affliction or illness, but eternal life. At the same time, we all bear witness that we remain faithful to the holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the leadership of Metropolitan Onufriy."
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On February 12, 2024, Olha Harasym, sister of fallen soldier Dmytro Slesaruk, called on the OCU to stop inciting religious hatred and spreading lies about her brother's funeral service.
"We, the family of the fallen soldier Dmytro Slesaruk, wish to refute the false accounts regarding the location of our Hero's funeral service. There was no prohibition on holding a funeral service for the fallen soldier in the church of the village of Dibrova; the decision to hold the funeral rite at the Holy Protection Cathedral was made by the family. We ask that you not disturb the memory of our Hero and not use the situation and his good name as an instrument of religious discord," wrote Olha on her Facebook page.
The Volyn Diocese of the UOC issued an identical appeal to the OCU.
They commented on a false publication by the OCU Volyn Diocese, which claimed that the UOC priest in the village of Dibrova had refused to open the church for the soldier's funeral service, forcing the family to transport the body to the neighboring village of Kivertsi.
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In reality, the decision to hold the soldier's funeral service at the OCU church in Kivertsi was made by the Slesaruk family and was not in any way the result of a refusal by the UOC priest in Dibrova. Moreover, when the cortège carrying the soldier's body arrived in Dibrova, the UOC priest rang the church bells in a funeral toll.
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"Why OCU priests invent and spread such things, we can only guess," the diocese wrote, concluding that fabricating lies and inciting religious enmity by exploiting the death of a fallen hero is "unworthy of a Christian, and all the more of a priest."
On March 23, 2024, local authorities in the village of Vizhenka, Chernivtsi region, convened a territorial community assembly at which the UOC St. Nicholas Church was "transferred" to the OCU.
The pretext for this action was a provocation involving the alleged unwillingness of the UOC parish rector to perform a funeral service for a fallen soldier on March 16.
OCU clergy, instead of holding the soldier's funeral service in their own church, arrived unannounced at the St. Nicholas Church at a moment when the UOC parish rector was in another village.
Shortly afterward, Iryna Nikorak, a member of parliament from "European Solidarity," published a call on her Facebook page to seize the St. Nicholas Church, claiming that the UOC priest had allegedly refused to perform a funeral service for a fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemember.
"People — have God in your hearts!!!
A tragic and shameful practice that occurs almost every day in Ukrainian cities and villages. But let me focus on one specific case.
The town of Vizhenka (near my hometown of Vyzhnytsia) recently received the remains of soldier Dmytro Klym, who had been killed at the front and had been listed as missing for an entire year. Only after a year was his body found and identified, and brought home to his family. Near their home is a cemetery where his parents, grandparents are buried, and the family has a burial plot there. The cemetery is attached to the UOC St. Nicholas Church, whose priest refused to allow the family to bring the body of the fallen hero into the church and, naturally, refused to perform the funeral service.
So he was given a funeral service outside the church by OCU priests.
At the same time, the women parishioners of this UOC church fully support the actions of the priest, who refuses to allow the hero to be honored with dignity in the church — and I quote: 'Well, it's right, we don't let strangers into our home'….
As I write this, my heart simply aches with pain. How is this possible?????!!!!!! People, will you ever be ashamed of this!!!
How, after this, can you look into the eyes of a soldier's family whose body was not even brought into a church? And then you enter your own church saying 'Lord have mercy, save and protect,' because the priest will forgive all your sins…
For me, this is no longer about God and faith, but about blind, fanatical adherence to values I cannot fathom.
May the Kingdom of Heaven receive the one who fell for freedom �🏻"
� (Source: Iryna Nikorak's Facebook page)
The Chernivtsi Diocese of the UOC published a comment on the matter, explaining that on the eve of the funeral, the wife of the fallen soldier Dmytro Klym had approached the UOC parish rector, Protopriest Antoniy Fedorashchak. She said she wanted her husband to be given a funeral service by an OCU representative and inquired about the UOC church. Father Antoniy asked to perform the memorial service personally in the event that she decided to hold the funeral service in the UOC St. Nicholas Church. The priest also asked the servicemember's wife to call him once she had made her decision.
On the day of the funeral, the UOC clergyman was in a neighboring village performing a memorial liturgy, but remained reachable, and, according to him, would have come immediately had he been called. However, no one contacted the rector on the day of the funeral; instead, OCU clergy performed the funeral service outside the church.
"They say the church was locked — do we not respect all heroes? They are all precious to us. It was possible to arrange this before the burial itself. There were several days before the funeral; the family had come to me, and we said the church would be open. There was time to resolve this," Protopriest Antoniy Fedorashchak, rector of the parish, attempted once again to appeal to the conscience of OCU adherents.
Father Antoniy recalled that "the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been with the people since the beginning of the war." "Our parish has donated 43,000 hryvnias," he said.
The clergyman also drew attention to the fact that the people of the village hold different religious preferences: there is an OCU parish, a Protestant denomination, and believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The group that initiated this assembly, he emphasized, has no connection whatsoever to the UOC religious community. He stated that the parish would defend its rights by all lawful means. After his remarks, the priest and the Orthodox believers who had come with him departed.
As a result, according to media reports, 237 residents of the village of Vizhenka voted in favor of "joining" the OCU. It is claimed that "the vote was unanimous."
On October 3, 2024, a territorial assembly was held in the village of Vidniv, Lviv region, at which the UOC Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was "transferred" to the OCU.
"Today, the religious community of the village of Vidniv of the Kulykiv Territorial Community, at a general assembly, decided to sever ties with the Moscow Patriarchate and join the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, this religious community had been a center of disputes and conflicts," reads a statement from the Lviv Regional State Administration.
The Lviv Regional State Administration confirms that the pretext for these actions was a recent conflict at the UOC church, provoked by representatives of the OCU and the UGCC. On October 14, during the funeral of a local resident — Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemember Mykhailo Sharpyl — the funeral service was conducted by representatives of the Greek Catholic Church. UGCC supporters brought the body of the deceased into the church and pressured the UOC priest to perform the soldier's funeral service in the Orthodox church according to the Greek Catholic rite.
"The fact that in October the MP priest refused to conduct the funeral rite for a Defender of Ukraine killed in the war became the catalyst for the process of this community's final departure from the Moscow structure. The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Vidniv (1738), which is an architectural monument of national significance, was the last house of worship in the Lviv region that was owned by a religious community in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate," the Regional State Administration wrote.
On January 17, 2025, in the village of Komarivtsi, an incident occurred at the funeral of Pavlo Unhuryan, who was killed at the front, which generated significant public and media attention.
The UOC community present at the funeral recorded the incident on video and expressed their outrage at what was taking place.
Roman Hryshchuk, an OCU cleric, accused UOC priests on his Facebook page of creating a tense situation at the funeral. According to him, the family of the fallen soldier did not want the funeral service to be conducted by a UOC priest; however, the priest came to the ceremony anyway, accompanied by several people. Hryshchuk claims that the UOC priests blocked the OCU from performing the funeral rite, refused to pray in the Ukrainian language, and behaved aggressively, being rude to the military personnel present. At the same time, Hryshchuk repeated false allegations against Bishop Nikita of Ivano-Frankivsk, which had been refuted in court and in the media.
A UOC parishioner commented on events inside the church, expressing outrage at the cynicism and inappropriate conduct of the representatives of the Dumenko structure: "I want to clarify how the funeral of hero Pavlo took place. It was simply a provocative mockery on the part of the OCU priests, who were promoting the idea of seizing the church while hiding behind patriotic sentiments. Shouting, jostling, profanity over the soldier's body! My mind cannot comprehend how people who commit such madness and outright mockery can then say they want to pray to God. To what God? My God teaches me love and mercy. It is painful that people who have no connection to our Church, who do not receive its Holy Sacraments, were shouting that they can decide its fate. I know that, just as the Lord before the Crucifixion understood that what was written must be fulfilled, we too say let His holy will be done. But we pray that He will change the minds of those who come against us, making enemies of us."
On March 18, 2025, in the city of Berestyne, Kharkiv region, OCU clergy were scheduled to perform the funeral service for Junior Sergeant Yuriy Chernyak, killed at the front.
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They decided to exploit the soldier's death and came to the UOC Church of Saint Luke of Crimea.
They staged the funeral service at the walls of the church, announcing that "Moscow priests refused to allow the soldier to be buried."
This egregious provocation spread through local social media and then into anti-Church media outlets.
On September 17, 2025, in the village of Novoselівka, Odesa region, a provocation by OCU representatives took place during the funeral of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Flaviy Lyanka.
Information about the incident was actively spread in the media, falsely accusing the UOC of disrespecting the fallen soldier. However, the situation was presented in a completely distorted manner.
On September 17, 2025, the villagers bade farewell to the 27-year-old soldier, who had been killed in Zaporizhzhia region back in 2023. According to some reports, he had been listed as missing in action. However, as SPZh reported, the soldier's funeral service had been performed in absentia at the request of the family the previous year. When his body was recently returned to Ukraine, the family arranged with a UOC priest to hold a memorial service.
However, according to an editorial source, at the last moment the mother of the deceased refused the participation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest and invited an OCU chaplain instead. The reason was an unwritten rule whereby the state pays for funerals only of soldiers whose services are conducted by OCU chaplains. Flaviy's mother was compelled to do this, as she had no money for the funeral.
After the OCU funeral service, the procession with the body proceeded to the cemetery. Along the way, at the UOC church, which was closed at the time, a provocation was staged that was presented on social media as a "refusal to allow entry into the church."
The principal organizer of the provocation was OCU cleric Vladyslav Shyman, who had previously transferred from the UOC to the Dumenko structure, and who stated on his Facebook page that the local rector had allegedly forbidden the defender's body to be brought into the church.
"No one asked to have the church opened for a funeral service, because the funeral service had already been performed. We were prepared to hold a memorial service, but the family was talked out of it by OCU representatives. What happened at the church gates was a pre-planned staged scene designed to defame the UOC," said UOC community representatives.
Local residents confirm that the church grounds were open, but the church itself was locked, as there were no services that day.
On December 30, 2025, OCU cleric Roman Hryshchuk claimed on his Facebook page that the rector of the UOC Ascension Church in the village of Banylov-Pidhirnyi had allegedly refused to perform a funeral service for fallen soldier Valentyn Falybоha.
Hryshchuk's lie was widely circulated by Ukrainian media outlets.
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According to the OCU cleric, "Moscow Patriarchate priests refused to allow the soldier to be given a funeral service in the church of the village of Banylov-Pidhirnyi; the soldier had to be given a funeral service in the community center."
"Today, OCU priests once again opened their fraternal embrace to you, offering joint prayer! And you spat into it! And you also lied, claiming that it was you who buried the soldier," wrote Hryshchuk.
In reality, after OCU clergy had performed their rite in the community center, the family of the fallen soldier wished to hold a funeral service in the UOC church.
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As reported by the group "Virni Chernivetsko-Bukovynskoi yeparkhii UPTs" [Faithful of the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Diocese of the UOC], on December 30 the funeral service was led by Dean of the Storozhnets Deanery Protopriest Vasyl Kovalchuk in the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, concelebrated by the church's rector, Priest Yaroslav Kucheruk, and clergy of the diocese.
On January 14, 2026, in the village of Komarov, Chernivtsi region, another incident occurred, forming part of a systematic campaign to discredit the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
At the funeral of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemember Vitaliy Melnyk — a father of four who was killed defending Ukraine — a scene unfolded that can only be described as a staged provocation.
The central actor was OCU cleric Roman Hryshchuk.
On his Facebook page, Hryshchuk posted a video (a conversation with a UOC priest during the funeral service for a Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier), the transcript of which clearly reveals the mechanics of this provocation scheme.
In the video, it is visible that from his very first words Hryshchuk is looking for a pretext for a scandal: "Open the Royal Doors. This is not a deceased person, this is a soldier who fell for Ukraine," he demands.
The UOC priest responds that according to the church typikon, the Royal Doors are not opened during a funeral service. This is not a matter of politics or patriotism — it is a centuries-old liturgical tradition. For Hryshchuk, however, the typikon is of no consequence. His objective is to turn the funeral into a scandal.
"The Royal Doors must be open at a soldier's funeral," the OCU cleric insists, disregarding the explanations.
When the priest firmly refuses to violate the typikon, Hryshchuk changes tactics. He begins asking questions that bear no direct relevance to the funeral rite itself: "Are you for Ukraine or for Russia? Did Russia attack us or not? Who is fighting against Ukraine?"
The UOC priest clearly understands that these questions are driven by Hryshchuk's desire to provoke a quarrel rather than by any wish to hear answers, and therefore does not take the bait. He makes this clear to Hryshchuk, responding that the Church stands apart from politics and that a funeral service is not a political act but a prayer for the repose of a soul. But Hryshchuk wants a scandal, not a dialogue.
"Are you for Ukraine or for Russia — I'm asking you?" he continues to press. "We are all for Ukraine, we are all Ukrainians," the priest replies, attempting to steer the conversation back toward constructive ground.
Immediately after the incident, Hryshchuk publishes a post on Facebook filled with hatred and insults.
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"Another Moscow scum who still hasn't figured out whether he's for Ukraine or for Russia. A Moscow priest called OCU priests and chaplains 'performers,' and the soldier — 'an ordinary deceased person.' This mankurt doesn't know whose Crimea is, who is fighting against us, or who killed the soldier we buried today!… And this thug is an entire deanery dean of the Kelmentsi district…" writes Hryshchuk.
Note the language: "Moscow scum," "mankurt," and then also "thug." These are not the words of a priest, and certainly not the words of a Christian who is called to fulfill Christ's commandment of love even toward enemies. These are the words of a person deliberately inciting enmity — inciting it with a very specific goal: the seizure of a UOC church.
On January 23, 2026, OCU cleric Roman Hryshchuk announced the transfer of the Dormition Church in Komarov, where on January 13 he had staged a scandal at the funeral service of soldier Vitaliy Melnyk.
In a video posted on his Facebook page, Hryshchuk claimed that UOC priests are "vatnyky" [pro-Russian collaborators] who transfer money to the Russian army, and that this is precisely why religious communities seek to join the OCU.
The OCU cleric also attempted to refute the arguments of an SPZh article about the provocation technique at funeral services that he uses to organize fake transfers to the OCU.
"Why did they squeal about Komarov and about the supposed recipe for church seizure being used there for several days, and so on? Because they know that the community, having seen all these things, has already drawn its own conclusions and is preparing to leave the Moscow Patriarchate," declared Hryshchuk, announcing yet another unlawful assembly. He asserted that neither he nor other OCU clergy would be busing people in to vote.
"And so they will vote to leave the Moscow Patriarchate. When that happens, well, you will be informed," said Hryshchuk.
On January 25, 2026, the priest and parishioners of the UOC Dormition Church of the village of Komarov appealed to the public for help in connection with the media campaign launched against them following the funeral service of the Ukrainian servicemember.
As the priest, Father Klyment, stated in a video address, the relatives of the fallen soldier had asked that a memorial service be held at the UOC church, and the community agreed. However, following this, an information attack against the parish was launched.
"These people are using this to stoke inter-religious enmity, to defame our Ukrainian Orthodox Church. They claim that Ukrainian soldiers are not heroes to us," the clergyman stated.
He emphasized that the community had always prayed for Ukrainian defenders, and that many parishioners have relatives at the front. The rector himself mentioned two of his parishioners: one who went missing in the area of Myrnograd, and another who sustained a serious wound.
"Our heroes are Ukrainian soldiers! We are not for the aggressor — we are Ukrainians, we are for Ukraine, we are for its future," Father Klyment stressed.
On January 25, 2026, Roman Hryshchuk posted on his Facebook page claiming that the religious community of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the village of Komarov, Dnistrovskyi district, had allegedly "transferred" to the OCU.
According to the information he published, 206 people participated in the assembly. 164 participants voted in favor of changing canonical subordination, while 42 voted against.
In his post, Hryshchuk thanked the participants of the assembly and Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemembers "for the opportunity to build Ukraine." He separately mentioned fallen servicemember Vitaliy Melnyk, wishing him the Kingdom of Heaven. The author of the post directly linked the soldier's death to subsequent events in the village, stating: "He managed to help the residents of his village even after his death!"
In conclusion, Roman Hryshchuk also made reference to Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy. In particular, he wrote: "We send greetings from the village of Komarov to the Russian citizens stripped of Ukrainian citizenship — Metropolitan Onufriy, who served today in Bancheny, and Meletiy Yehorenko. We greeted you as best we could!"
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