People in masks desecrate an Orthodox church in the Kiev Region

April 4, 2015. Unidentified people in military uniform raided the Transfiguration Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the village of Gusintsy, the Kiev Region, Ukraine as reports the website “The Orthodox life”.

“Group of armed men in masks introduced themselves as officials of the Ukrainian Security Service and performed a search, desecrating church shrines. For instance, they disassembled the holy altar,” the UOC reports at its website.

The raiders did not provide any documents or orders allowing them to perform a search. They explained their actions saying they were searching for weapon allegedly hidden in the church.