Head of the Right Sector in Rivne Region Threatens to Seize all the UOC Churches in Dubno District

Roman Koval, the head of the "Right Sector" in Rivne region, threatened to seize all the churches in Dubno district if the UOC community did not leave the church in the village of Ptycha. All this was said to the UOJ reporter by the senior priest of the UOC Archpriest Nikolai Sysoniuk. 

According to the priest, Roman Koval in the presence of dozens of people, who heard his words, said that on his command 200 Right Sector fighters would arrive in Ptycha if the community of the UOC did not leave the church locations within an hour. Also Koval threatened to seize all the churches of the UOC in Dubno district within a day. 

As it was previously reported, on December 18, supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate beat representatives of the UOC community of Ptycha village, who wanted to go into their own church. The police took the side of the KP representatives, who have been illegally holding the disputed church for more than a month.

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