Ночью 16 мая был жестоко и варварски разрушен храм УПЦ в честь равноапостольных князя Владимира и княгини Ольги в Киеве, относящийся к Десятинному мужскому монастырю УПЦ.
В народе он больше известен как Десятинный храм.
Ближе к 10 вечера территория вокруг церкви была окружена и заблокирована представителями полиции и военными.
Ни братия Десятинного монастыря, ни прихожане храма не были допущены к своей святыне.
Позже на месте была заглушена связь, а к храму подвезли строительную технику.
За считанные часы маленький красивый храм был полностью уничтожен. Вместе с престолом, в который были вложены мощи святых, вместе с искусными иконами и барельефами. А его останки вывезены в неизвестном направлении грузовиками как строительный мусор.
Страшная трагедия для каждого православного украинца. Страшное известие для каждого православного в мире, да и для каждого христианина.

И отрезвляющая правда о том, во что превратилась власть в Киеве, более не имеющая ничего общего с Европой и демократией.
Такие беззаконные деяния чётко показывают, для чего они бросили в тюрьму православных журналистов по лживым обвинениям. Они боятся огласки ужасающих преступлений потив прав православных украинцев, которые запланировали.

Для этого сначала людям заткнули рты — уголовными делами и страхом расправы. Попытались заткнуть.

И вот, теперь следующий пункт преступного плана осуществился. А те, кто говорил правду и мешал им, уже третий месяц сидят в СИЗО.

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On May 29, an appeal hearing was scheduled to take place against the decision of the investigating judge to extend the detention of Orthodox journalist Andrei Ovcharenko. Or revising this unjustified preventive measure to a more lenient one.

For the second month now, the journalist and human rights activist has been in jail on false charges. The authorities, represented by the SSU, are persecuting Andrei Ovcharenko for performing technical work on the UOJ website. One of the few resources in Ukraine that was not afraid to objectively cover the terror that the authorities launched against Ukrainian Christians, believers of the UOC.

On May 29, the judge decided to postpone the hearings “due to the failure of the detainee to be brought to the courtroom.”

This was justified by the fact that the escort of the journalist was not agreed upon with the investigator. That is, the investigator itself sabotaged the escort of the suspect so court took advantage of this reason to postpone the consideration of the preventive measure.

This means forcing Andrei to continue to sit in the pre-trial detention center.

Lawyers emphasize that this is not the first time that an investigator has failed to act in terms of organizing an escort.

At the same time, in all trials carried out on the initiative of the investigation and prosecution, detainees are delivered on time.

Lawyers consider such actions to be a violation of the rights of suspects to a fair hearing of the appeal.

And this is certainly a deliberate act, in our opinion. It is not beneficial for the prosecution to consider fake cases on their merits. After all, it is already possible, without guilt or evidence, to punish journalists with detention thanks to the dirty manipulations of the court.

The reprisal is simply an exemplary reprisal and mockery.

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Ukraine, Kyiv, May 30.

On this day, a new court hearing took place in the case of Fr. Serhiy Chertilin, a UOC priest and human rights activist who is being persecuted by the Ukrainian authorities for political reasons.

Believers and military personnel, veterans and servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whom he helped, came to support the clergyman.

Father Serhiy and his lawyers filed a petition to challenge the judges, who were convicted of violating the law and bias at the last meeting.

Unfortunately, the application was rejected. And, unfortunately, expected. After all, the decision was made by the same judges.

During the previous court hearing, the judge violated the secrecy of the deliberation room. While he was in this room and making a decision, an SBU investigator and a prosecutor came to see the judge. This is a gross violation of all procedures, suggesting pressure on the court from the investigation.
Moreover, the judge behaved in advance in a biased manner towards Father Serhiy.

When, in response to the question on what grounds a person is left in a pre-trial detention center in the absence of evidence, the judge answers “That’s how it should be” - this also says a lot.

The defense also requested that the case be postponed in order to obtain additional materials from doctors currently treating the suspect.

But the judges replied that they were generally going on vacation. Thus, the meeting was postponed almost 2 months, to July 22

Not providing proper medical care, delaying for another 2 months the decision on the operation necessary for the clergy - nothing less than torture.


Father Serhiy, an Orthodox priest and human rights activist, is essentially tortured in custody, not only by unreasonably prolonging his detention, but also by criminally putting his life at risk by depriving him of a medical procedure.

We address Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as organizations that have repeatedly drawn their attention to the ill-treatment of prisoners in Ukraine.

Moreover, Father Serhiy is not even a prisoner.
He is not convicted.
He is under investigation and a suspect. The trial in his case continues, and the detention in a pre-trial detention center of a man who has not committed violent crimes, a priest, on clearly political charges is nothing more than reprisal and arbitrariness of the security forces.

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