Anastasia Gorbacheva 09:46, 11/26/22 UNIAN

According to media reports, the young man who spent time with the archimandrite is not yet 18.

Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine during searches in the Chernivtsi diocese of the UOC-MP found Archimandrite Nikita in bed with a naked guy. According to media reports, the young man turned out to be a minor.

Edition L.B. _ notes that the guy sings in the choir and he is not yet 18 years old. It is reported that the SBU broke into the cell where the archimandrite lives at the moment of physical intimacy with the guy.

The priest has already recorded a video refutation of this information. According to him, law enforcement officers undressed the guy and photographed.

“They woke us up, smashed the doors. We were taken out of the rooms, everyone who was in the diocese was put against the wall, undressed and photographed. Then obscene additives appeared,” said Archimandrite Nikita.

At the same time, he accused the state structures of Ukraine of using despotic methods. Also, the clergyman of the UOC-MP pointed out that the searches took place from 7 am to 19:05 pm.

The secretary of the diocese of the UOC-MP justified himself for having an affair with a minor guy

Searches in the temples of the UOC-MP – what is known

On November 22, the SBU came with searches in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra  after information appeared in the media that  the “Russian world” was being glorified in one of the churches . 

They spent  the area in the temples of the UOC-MP in the regions , namely on the territory of the Koretsky Holy Trinity Monastery in the city of Korets, the convent in honor of the Volyn Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Serniki and on the premises of the Sarnensko-Polesye diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

According to the SBU, more than 350 church buildings and 850 people were checked, of which more than 50 people were interrogated. Among them were both citizens of Ukraine and foreigners, namely Russians.

On November 25,  the SBU carried out counterintelligence activities  on the territory of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina diocese of the UOC-MP. At the same time, it was reported that during the search, the investigators witnessed the physical proximity of the secretary of the Chernivtsi diocese of the UOC-MP, Archimandrite Nikita, with a guy who sings in the local choir.

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