A UOC priest was mobilized in Ukraine after his car was stopped

In Chernihiv, military enlistment office employees mobilized a clergyman of the Church of the Nativity of Christ — Archpriest Pavel Tovstogon.

This is reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ).

According to the organization, representatives of the territorial recruitment center (TRC) stopped the cleric’s car and took him to the military enlistment office. The incident occurred on October 11, 2026.

Attempts to secure the clergyman’s release were unsuccessful, after which he was mobilized.

The incident became known, among other things, thanks to the archpriest’s wife, Ksenia Koval. The woman published a photograph of her husband in which he is already depicted in military uniform. No other details about the priest’s subsequent fate are provided in the report.

Earlier, Life.ru reported on the forced mobilization of the rector of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God of the UOC in the Zhytomyr region. The incident occurred in the city of Korosten, where territorial recruitment center employees took away Archpriest Alexey Stuzhuk.

Information about the incident was disseminated by clergyman Georgy Kuznetsov. He appealed to believers with a request to pray for the detained rector. At the same time, the circumstances of the mobilization were not disclosed in detail in the report. There was also no information about Stuzhuk’s whereabouts after the incident.