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March 17, 2017 – The parish members of Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP) of Adamovka village in the Rivne region, asked the UOJ (Union of Orthodox Journalists) to prevent a pre-planned provocation. Residents of the village witnessed reporters from the TV channel “1+1” interviewing a woman who, against the background of the church, accused the clergy of the UOC-MP of non-patriotism and told deliberately false information about the funeral of a Ukrainian soldier who died in the Donbass War.

As it became known, the interview with people with TSN and “1 + 1″ paraphernalia was given by Larrisa Sirotinskaya, a resident of the village of Adamovka and a parishioner of the church of the Kiev Patriarchate in the village of Sosnovoye. She reported that, allegedly, the priests of the UOC-MP “disrespected the death of a soldier who died in the Donbass War”. The irony of the claim is that the relatives of the deceased soldier themselves turned to the canonical UOC-MP, rejecting the Kiev Patriarchate. Seven priests conducted the funeral service, with the blessing of Metropolitan Anatoly of Sarny, at once.

The parishioners of Ss. Peter and Paul’s Church in the village of Adamovka told the UOJ correspondent that “people with TV cameras asked provocative questions and tried to denigrate the canonical Church.” According to the rector of the church, Archpriest Alexander Lutsishin, “believers reacted very negatively to uninvited guests, and some even rudely kicked them out of the village.”
Sources
http://uoj.org.ua/en/novosti/sobytiya/adamovka-parishioners-warn-about-forthcoming-provocation-from-tsn
http://pro.church.ua/2017/03/19/prixozhani-sela-adamivka-poperedzhayut-pro-pidgotovku-chergovoji-provokaciji-vid-tsn/
http://sarny.church.ua/2016/11/07/mitropolit-anatolij-znovu-sumna-zvistka-prijshla-na-polissya/
http://uoj.org.ua/novosti/sobytiya/prikhozhane-sela-adamovka-preduprezhdayut-o-gotovyashcheysya-provokatsii-ot-tsn