Yurkivtsi: OCU raiders cut off a UOC believer's fingertip with a crowbar
Seizure of a church in Yurkivtsi. Photo: UOC
On March 18, 2023, OCU raiders around 12:00, hitting the gates of the St Demetrius Church in the village of Yurkivtsi, Chernivtsi region, cut off a fingertip of a parishioner, who was defending the church from seizure, reports the press service of the Chernivtsi Eparchy.
The parishioner underwent surgery.
"This bloodshed is not only on the perpetrators of the crime. This blood is not less on the conscience of Ruslan Zaparaniuk, the chairman of the Chernivtsi Regional Administration, who was appointed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It was he who issued the criminal order to forcibly re-register the Orthodox church in Yurkivtsi to the OCU. It was he who gave the green light to start violence in the once peaceful Bukovyna village," the Chernivtsi Eparchy said.
On 18 March 2023, OCU raiders seized the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki in the Chernivtsi region, beating to blood UOC worshippers.
As reported, on October 22, 2022, in the village of Yurkivtsi, Chernivtsi region, an illegal vote to change the jurisdictional subordination of the St Demetrius Church for the OCU was held at a meeting of the territorial community. The parishioners of the church reaffirmed their faithfulness to the UOC at a meeting of the religious community.
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