Cherkasy, Cherkasy Province, Ukraine, June 19, 2025
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A video published yesterday shows how the godless members of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” treat Orthodox clergy. In the scene, a priest is thrown to the ground and beaten repeatedly and mercilessly.
God-hating thugs and schismatics attempted to seize the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Cherkasy, Ukraine, on Tuesday, though in the end, the Orthodox faithful managed to regain control of their holy site.
Whereas churches seized by the schismatic OCU, which enjoys the support of the Ukrainian state and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, stand practically empty, a thousand parishioners came to the cathedral to thank God for His protection.
However, several people were severely injured during the hours-long standoff, including His Eminence Metropolitan Meletiy of Cherkasy, who was sprayed with tear gas and shoved to the ground by police.
And in the video published yesterday, a local priest, Fr. Roman, is shown being severely beaten and dragged along the ground:
He was then lifted up over the church fence and dropped 10 feet on the other side.
Fr. Roman suffered a broken nose and heart, chest, pelvic, and leg injuries.
A montage video also shows how at least one anti-Orthodox schismatic pretended to be a wheelchair-bound invalid to get into the church. It also shows a group of young men raging like beasts, violently attacking people right in front of the holy altar:
Another priest, Fr. Vitaly Goncharuk, was also beaten and hospitalized, suffering a broken nose. In a video address, he asked Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople about those who beat him and put him in the hospital: “Do you recognize your spiritual child? A child of that church under Epiphany’s leadership, to whom you handed the tomos and recognized him as a bishop, equal among you?”
“This blood has been flowing ever since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine received the tomos. Blood flows in Bukovina, flows throughout all of Ukraine. And the blood is on your hands—because of the tomos, which you allegedly gave out of love to resolve the situation, but it led to even greater aggression, even more blood,” Fr. Vitaly said.
“You know this, and your inaction shows that all this is happening with your tacit consent. There remains a chance that you are not being informed about hundreds of similar acts of banditry, raids, and beatings under the PCU flag. I hope that you will hear and see this. What happens next is on your conscience. Come to Chernivtsi, and we will tell and show you—a thousand voices of Orthodox believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will tell you how much evil your spiritual children have committed in our Bukovina Diocese,” the priest said.
