"The Security Service of Ukraine has collected evidence of the guilt of the rector of the parish of the Kiev-Zhytomyr diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in anti-Ukrainian activities ... He publicly ... denied the war crimes of the Russian invaders against Ukrainians ... The indictment was sent to court," the SBU said in a statement. .
The department clarified that in speeches to believers, the priest called the events in Bucha a staged and urged people not to trust the statements of the Kyiv authorities and the media.
The man was declared suspected in accordance with Part 1 of Art.
436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants committed by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Earlier it became known that more than 50 criminal cases were opened in Ukraine against priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
It also turned out that since 2014, the SBU had been working for several years to intimidate priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.