Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2023 8:44:28 GMT
Last month, footage emerged of a confrontation in the village of Bugryn, Rivne Oblast of Ukraine. The Ascension Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the main church in the village, was threatened with closure by district officials, OCU nationallsts, and hostile members of the population. A video went viral of an elderly Ukrainian lady, Nadiya Fedorivna, pleading with local officials and representatives of nationalists, not to seize her church. She explained that her son and grandson were both defending Ukraine at the front. She said, "I have a grandson in the war, a son in the war, there are already dead in the family. Where should I go to pray?”
After that, officials temporarily retreated. They continue to try to confiscate the church. However, yesterday Victoria Sviatoslavovna Kokhanovskaya, leader of the UOC advocacy group "Women's Power of Ukraine", announced that the grandson of Nadiya Fedorivna, Sergey Kogut, died on the 8th of November at age 32, fighting the aggressor in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. This hero of Ukraine fought and died for the sake of his motherland, and at the same time, his elderly grandmother has to stand before aggressive and angry young men holding crowbars, begging them not to close her church.
This is the tragic reality of modern Ukraine. As Victoria Kokhanovskaya said, "Such are the "unpatriotic" believers of the UOC, they bury their grandchildren and children, silently swallowing tears and pain, while "patriotic" men throw them out of churches and count them among the cohort of traitors."
On the 12th of November, the funeral of the defender of Ukraine was held at the Ascension Church which (for now) has not been confiscated.
So, in Ukraine, this is how it works: the young men go to fight and die for their country. And their octogenarian grandmothers, in order to let their sons and grandsons have a proper funeral, have to hold fort against other men, who, rather than fighting for Ukraine, devote themselves to stealing churches on behalf of the godless government.
18th of October 2023: Nadiya Fedorivna begs officials not to close her church
8th of November: Nadiya Fedorivna at her grandson's funeral
After that, officials temporarily retreated. They continue to try to confiscate the church. However, yesterday Victoria Sviatoslavovna Kokhanovskaya, leader of the UOC advocacy group "Women's Power of Ukraine", announced that the grandson of Nadiya Fedorivna, Sergey Kogut, died on the 8th of November at age 32, fighting the aggressor in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. This hero of Ukraine fought and died for the sake of his motherland, and at the same time, his elderly grandmother has to stand before aggressive and angry young men holding crowbars, begging them not to close her church.
This is the tragic reality of modern Ukraine. As Victoria Kokhanovskaya said, "Such are the "unpatriotic" believers of the UOC, they bury their grandchildren and children, silently swallowing tears and pain, while "patriotic" men throw them out of churches and count them among the cohort of traitors."
On the 12th of November, the funeral of the defender of Ukraine was held at the Ascension Church which (for now) has not been confiscated.
So, in Ukraine, this is how it works: the young men go to fight and die for their country. And their octogenarian grandmothers, in order to let their sons and grandsons have a proper funeral, have to hold fort against other men, who, rather than fighting for Ukraine, devote themselves to stealing churches on behalf of the godless government.
18th of October 2023: Nadiya Fedorivna begs officials not to close her church
8th of November: Nadiya Fedorivna at her grandson's funeral