Priest Sergiy from the Nikolaev diocese of the Kharkiv region tells how he was forced to flee to Belgorod after soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine came to his church. A video with the priest’s story was published by RT with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
It is reported that Father Sergiy served for 17 years in the Nikolaev diocese in the Kharkov region. After Ukrainian soldiers came to his church, he had to leave the Kharkiv region and go to Belgorod because of death threats:
“They tied me up, handcuffed me, beat me with butts, interrogated me. They tried to give me tasks, to make an agent out of me, but what kind of agent am I? They threatened me, they pointed a machine gun at me, they put a knife to my throat. <…> I was not going to leave. I have a church, people. But after their visit, I went out on foot, soldiers picked me up from Svatovo. I spent the night with them in the BMP. In the morning I got on a bus and came here,” the priest said.
According to him, Ukrainian nationalists “like a bull on a red rag” rush at everything that they take for Russian: at the Russian dry rations they found, at humanitarian aid, and if they find the St. George ribbon, then “problems definitely cannot be avoided.”
“This should not be, I have always said that for me Russia and Ukraine are one country. We speak the same language, we understand each other, we are one,” says Father Sergiy.
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