The Security Service of Ukraine has detained four enemy agitators in several regions of Ukraine. The perpetrators supported russia’s armed aggression, called for attacks on Ukrainian cities and torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

In the Kyiv region, a senior deacon of the Kyiv metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (moscow patriarchate) was exposed for using Telegram channels to incite ruscists to use violence against Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers held captive.

It has been documented how the cleric urged the enemy to imprison our soldiers in jails, leave them without food or water for long periods, and send them to hard labour.

In the Cherkasy region, a local unemployed man has been charged with praising putin on various messaging apps and calling on him to strike Kyiv with an Oreshnik missile.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, an archimandrite, the former rector of a church in the Sieversk-Donetsk Diocese of the UOC-MP, was exposed for justifying the crimes of the aggressor state and wishing for the full occupation of Ukraine.

After the seizure of part of the Luhansk region in 2014, the cleric travelled to russia to secure the support of the leaders of the ROC.

Upon returning to Ukraine, he conducted liturgies at a church in the Dnipropetrovsk region, inciting parishioners to support the kremlin regime.

Furthermore, in private texting, the cleric justified russian shelling of Ukrainian cities.

In the Prykarpattia region, the SSU, jointly with the National Police, detained a woman from the Kosiv district who had called on social media for the revival of the USSR.

According to the investigation, she posted Soviet symbols on her Facebook page and urged Ukrainian citizens to disregard the current legislation of our state.

Based on the evidence, Security Service investigators notified the agitators of suspicion under the Articles of the CCU:

• 436-1.2 (production and dissemination of communist and nazi symbols, and the propaganda of communist and nazi totalitarian regimes);
• parts 1 and 3 of 436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, or denial of russia’a armed aggression against Ukraine, and glorification of its participants).

The perpetrators face up to 10 years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Offices.