The militants "Right sector" seized the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the Cherkasy region informs.

"Right sector" - Ukrainian Union of radical nationalist organizations. In January and February 2014 the Militants of the movement participated in battles with the police and the seizure of administrative buildings, and from April - in the suppression of protests in the East of Ukraine. Moscow many times urged Kiev to disarm illegal equipped weapon creation, and among them terrorists " Right sector ".

"The twelfth of February, After the divine Liturgy, a group of people in a protective form with stripes "Right sector" blocked Holy cross Church in the village of Bolshaya Sevastyanovka Kristanovskaja district of Cherkasy region ", - said in the report.

according to the UOC, this illegal seizure was preceded by the so-called Veche, where citizens who are not residents of the village and are not related to the ward, he resorted to outright insulting believers of UOC. In addition, the soldiers "Right sector" forcibly pushed from a meeting of Archpriest canonical Church Basil Michinoku, without giving him the opportunity to Express their vision of the situation.

UOC emphasizes that the organizers of the "Veche" was also intimidated the local priest, causing it to go into schism. After the capture of the temple radicals put from him his protection, which does not let the believers.

"Authorized village Council withdrew from the prevention of wrongful acts visiting radicals than indulging the inciting another hotbed of sectarian strife," he said in the UOC.

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