The UOC-MP priest was one of the first to cooperate with the enemy and gathered like-minded people to paint the stele at the entrance to occupied Kherson in the colors of the Russian flag.
The security service collected evidence on collaborator Nazar Shkil, a subdeacon of the so-called “Kherson Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church” in the temporarily occupied part of the region. The SBU press service reported this on Thursday, May 9.
It is reported that during the occupation of Kherson, Shkil was one of the first to support the invaders and cooperated with them as a cleric of the local UOC-MP community.
“Afterwards, Gauleiter Saldo approved his candidacy for the leadership of a local labor organization, managed under the guise of a” public youth association.” entering occupied Kherson in the colors of the Russian flag. cooperating reported about it in live broadcasts on the central television channels of the aggressor country,” the message said.
In addition, the collaborator encouraged believers to support a pseudo-referendum on the “integration” of the region with the Russian Federation.
“During the liberation of the Kherson region, the defendant, together with his father, the rector of the local UOC-MP church, fled to the city of Stavropol,” the SBU added.
The subdeacon-collaborator was charged in absentia with suspicion under three articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: collaboration activities; rejection of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine; interference with the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine.
Comprehensive measures are underway to bring the traitor to justice.
The issue of qualifying the actions of his father, who was also involved in information and subversive activities in favor of the aggressor country, has also been resolved.
Earlier it was reported about searches in the Metropolitan of the UOC-MP in Zaporozhye. Metropolitan Luke is suspected of inciting religious hatred in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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