“And we’ve broken tougher ones”: in Odesa, a priest who refused to take up arms was mobilized

In Odesa, a priest who refuses to take up arms was mobilized.

This was recounted by his wife, volunteer Natalia Unguryan, in an interview with Ukrainian media.

According to her, the man’s phone was taken away, and she searched for him for six days. When she finally got in touch with her husband, it turned out that he was in Odesa region. The man said that after arriving at the unit, when he and other mobilized men got off the bus, they were pelted with stun grenades.

The clergyman also said that at the territorial recruitment and social support center on Belinsky Street, where he had been held, personal belongings were searched, after which 9,000 hryvnias went missing.

According to him, unsanitary conditions prevailed there, even the toilet did not work, and mobilized men had to relieve themselves in bottles.

When a lawyer tried to ask the deputy commander of the TCC why they needed a priest, he replied: “We’ve broken tougher ones than him.”

The woman added that her husband is under constant psychological pressure and is being “threatened with being sent to ‘Skala’” (the 425th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).

Earlier, enlistment officers detained a priest of the Vinnytsia Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.